iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF
$41.86−0.33 (−0.78%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $158M
- 1Y return
- +27.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.21%
- Holdings
- 240
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.07
- 52W range
The ETF.net SVAL Grade
Score 56 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.CScore 51Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 84Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 27Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 33Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 50Category rank
Our read on SVAL
BMost value ETFs buy big, cheap blue chips. SVAL goes small: a focused cut of the Russell 2000, about 300 stocks picked for the most prominent value traits. The deep end of the value pool.
The fund tracks an index of U.S. small-capitalization stocks selected for prominent value characteristics.
Why people hold it
- Truth in labeling: it tracks the Russell 2000 Focused Value Select Index, real small caps screened for value, not mid caps wearing a small-cap name tag.sec.gov
- Focus by design: roughly 300 names out of the Russell 2000's roughly 2,000, so the value screen actually bites instead of getting diluted.lseg.com
- Plain iShares plumbing: a standard 1940 Act index fund at 0.20% a year that pays shareholders quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.20% it costs more than broad Russell 2000 value trackers like VTWV (0.06%). The extra screening is what you are paying for.
- Thinly traded next to the household names in value land, so spreads can be wider. Limit orders matter more here.
- Small-cap value is the jumpy end of equities, and a focused portfolio can wander a long way from the broad market in either direction.
SVAL Holdings
- Stocks
- 240
- 6%
- ANF
Sectors
- Financials22.7%
- Industrials14.5%
- Consumer Discr.11.5%
- Technology11.5%
- Health Care10.8%
- Energy9.8%
- Materials4.9%
- Cons. Staples4.6%
- Real Estate3.7%
- Utilities3.2%
- Communication2.8%
Geography
- United States95.17%
- Bermuda1.93%
- Monaco0.90%
- Canada0.45%
- United Kingdom0.45%
- Panama0.43%
- France0.34%
- Cayman Islands0.32%
SVAL 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 | SVAL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +24.5% |
| 1 month | −2.8% |
| 3 months | +4.4% |
| 1 year | +27.3% |
| 3 years | +19.8% |
| 5 years | +10.2% |
| 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 | SVAL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +24.5% | |
| 2025 | +8.2% | |
| 2024 | +7.5% | |
| 2023 | +12.3% | |
| 2022 | −10.1% | |
| 2021 | +33.2% | |
| 2020 | +28.0% |
SVAL in the news
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SVAL Dividends
- 2.21%
- $0.93
- $0.25 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Oct 2, 2023 | $0.20 |
SVAL Risk
- 19.9%
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.
- 0.72
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.
- −27.4%
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.
- 0.93
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SVAL Cost
- The middle half of US Value Index funds
- Median 0.20%
19 of the 41 US Value Index funds charge less.