iShares ESG Aware USD Corporate Bond ETF
$22.23−0.23 (−1.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.18%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- −0.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.65%
- Holdings
- 3960
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.43
- 52W range
The ETF.net SUSC Grade
Score 78 of 100 sits in the A 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 73Category 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 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 81Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 89Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on SUSC
ACorporate bond beta with a conscience filter: roughly 4,000 investment-grade USD bonds, screened on business involvement and tilted toward better ESG profiles, in one ticker. Trading since 2017, paying monthly.
The fund seeks to track an index of investment-grade USD corporate bonds with positive environmental, social, and governance characteristics in aggregate.
Why people hold it
- Breadth, not a slice. About 4,000 investment-grade USD corporate bonds, so the screen runs across the whole market rather than a narrow corner of it.
- At 0.18%, it sits just under the typical fee in its investment-grade corporate peer group, which is unusual for a screened product.
- The label and the portfolio match: one named benchmark, the Bloomberg MSCI US Corporate ESG Focus Index, and a mandate you can hold the fund to.ishares.com
- Income arrives monthly, from a fund with a track record stretching back to its 2017 launch.
Worth knowing
- The screen carries a price tag. Plain broad investment-grade corporate funds like USIG and VCIT charge a fraction of 0.18% for unscreened exposure.
- ESG Aware is a tilt, not a purge. The index targets better ESG characteristics in aggregate alongside business involvement screens, so familiar large issuers still appear.ishares.com
- Trading is moderate rather than heavy, so spreads deserve a look on larger orders.
SUSC Holdings
- Bonds
- 3,960
- 3%
- BLK CSH FND TREASURY SL AGENCY
Geography
- United States81.78%
- United Kingdom5.07%
- Canada4.38%
- Japan2.33%
- Netherlands1.69%
- Ireland1.65%
- Spain0.55%
- Australia0.52%
- 2.02%
SUSC 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 | SUSC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.0% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | −1.6% |
| 1 year | −0.2% |
| 3 years | +5.1% |
| 5 years | −0.6% |
| 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 | SUSC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.0% | |
| 2025 | +7.5% | |
| 2024 | +1.9% | |
| 2023 | +8.6% | |
| 2022 | −16.0% | |
| 2021 | −1.6% | |
| 2020 | +9.6% |
SUSC in the news
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SUSC Dividends
- 4.65%
- $1.05
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.09 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.08 |
SUSC Risk
- 6.4%
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.
- 0.06
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.
- −22.4%
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.
- 1.11
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SUSC Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.30%
12 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.