iShares TIPS Bond ETF
$104.80−0.77 (−0.72%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.18%
- Fund size
- $14.7B
- 1Y return
- −0.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.65%
- Holdings
- 49
- Volume · 30D
- 2M sh
- NAV per share
- $105.62
- 52W range
The ETF.net TIP Grade
Score 68 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.DScore 34Category 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 45Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 97Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 79Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 88Category rank
Our read on TIP
BThe 2003-vintage TIPS fund: roughly 50 inflation-linked Treasuries, tracked tightly and traded heavily. You pay up for that depth, because cheaper TIPS wrappers now exist.
The fund seeks to track an index of inflation-protected U.S. Treasury bonds, providing fixed-income exposure and a potential hedge against inflation.
Why people hold it
- Owns the inflation-linked Treasury market straight: about 50 TIPS, where the hedge is built into the bonds themselves rather than layered on with derivatives.ishares.com
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively and stays very close to its benchmark, the ICE U.S. Treasury Inflation Linked Bond Index.
- Trading since 2003, one of the longest-tenured inflation-linked bond funds on the market, with a large iShares fixed-income operation behind it.
Worth knowing
- At 0.18% a year it runs above the median Treasury fund in its group, and SCHP covers similar TIPS ground for 0.03%.
- Inflation protection is not price protection. The index spans the full TIPS curve, including long maturities, so rising real yields drag on the share price.ishares.com
- Payouts arrive on an irregular schedule and move with inflation accruals, so income here behaves less like a steady coupon than a nominal bond fund's.
TIP Holdings
- Bonds
- 49
- 36%
- TREASURY (CPI) NOTE 1.88% 07/15/2035
Geography
- United States100.00%
TIP Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
TIP$9,929
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 | TIP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.7% |
| 1 month | −1.5% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | −0.7% |
| 3 years | +3.8% |
| 5 years | −0.0% |
| 10 years | +2.2% |
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 | TIP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.7% | |
| 2025 | +6.8% | |
| 2024 | +1.7% | |
| 2023 | +3.8% | |
| 2022 | −12.2% | |
| 2021 | +5.7% | |
| 2020 | +10.8% |
TIP in the news
TIP Dividends
- 4.65%
- $4.90
- $0.78 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.78 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $1.06 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $1.28 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Sep 2, 2025 | Sep 5, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Aug 6, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Jun 5, 2025 | $0.27 |
TIP Risk
- 4.2%
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.
- −0.17
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.
- −14.5%
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.
- 0.69
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
TIP Cost
0.18%
TIP0.18%
- The middle half of TIPS funds
- Median 0.10%
27 of the 41 TIPS funds charge less.