iShares ESG Aware 1-5 Year USD Corporate Bond ETF
$24.45−0.13 (−0.51%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.12%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +1.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.58%
- Holdings
- 1586
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.56
- 52W range
The ETF.net SUSB Grade
Score 69 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 70Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 42Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 72Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 71Category rank
Our read on SUSB
BShort-dated corporate bonds with an ESG filter. SUSB tracks a Bloomberg MSCI index of 1-5 year investment-grade US corporate debt screened for environmental, social and governance characteristics, at 0.12% a year.
The fund seeks to track an index of short-term, investment-grade U.S.-dollar corporate bonds whose issuers have positive aggregate environmental, social, and governance characteristics.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.12%, under the typical investment-grade corporate bond fund, and the portfolio behind it is one of the stronger builds in that group.
- Maturities stop at five years, so prices move less when rates shift than long-dated corporate debt does. Income is paid monthly.
- The ESG call is not a manager's hunch. It follows the Bloomberg MSCI US Corporate 1-5 Year ESG Focus Index, spread across roughly 1,700 bonds.
- Running since 2017 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund, so this is a screened bond strategy with real operating history and real scale behind it.
Worth knowing
- The screen costs extra. IGSB, the unscreened iShares 1-5 year investment-grade corporate fund, charges 0.04%.
- ESG here means MSCI's definition, applied at the index level. If your own standards differ, the holdings list is the place to check.
- Trading is moderate rather than heavy, so spreads can run wider than at the category giants like VCIT and USIG.
SUSB Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,586
- 4%
- CHENIERE ENERGY INC 4.63% 10/15/2028
Geography
- United States77.48%
- United Kingdom6.13%
- Canada6.10%
- Japan3.51%
- Ireland2.20%
- Netherlands1.79%
- Spain0.69%
- Australia0.64%
- 1.46%
SUSB Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | SUSB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.3% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −0.2% |
| 1 year | +1.6% |
| 3 years | +5.3% |
| 5 years | +2.1% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | SUSB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.3% | |
| 2025 | +6.8% | |
| 2024 | +4.8% | |
| 2023 | +6.0% | |
| 2022 | −5.7% | |
| 2021 | −0.8% | |
| 2020 | +5.0% |
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SUSB Dividends
- 4.58%
- $1.13
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
SUSB Risk
- 2.4%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.29
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −9.4%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.40
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SUSB Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate (0-5 Year) funds
- Median 0.15%
6 of the 23 Investment Grade Corporate (0-5 Year) funds charge less.