iShares MSCI World ETF
$208.01−2.01 (−0.96%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.24%
- Fund size
- $8.3B
- 1Y return
- +17.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.35%
- Holdings
- 1253
- Volume · 30D
- 0.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $209.59
- 52W range
The ETF.net URTH Grade
Score 60 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 33Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 94Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 57Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 79Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 32Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on URTH
BMost developed-market ETFs hand you everything except America. URTH takes MSCI World whole, US included, so one ticker holds large and mid caps across 23 developed countries.
The fund seeks to track an index representing developed-market equities from around the globe.
Why people hold it
- One ticket for the developed world: roughly 1,300 large and mid caps across 23 developed countries, covering about 85% of each market's free-float value.msci.com
- Trading since 2012 under the iShares roof, and it stays close to the MSCI World index it promises.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that changes hands actively, which tends to keep spreads narrow on ordinary-size orders.
- Sits in the upper half of its developed-market index peer group.
Worth knowing
- 0.24% a year is above the typical fee in this cohort. Ex-US peers VEA, SPDW and SCHF charge 0.03%, but they leave the US slice for you to add separately.
- Market-cap weighted, so the US, the largest developed market, carries the heaviest weight and the mega caps set the tone.msci.com
- Developed markets, large and mid caps only: no emerging markets, no small caps.msci.com
URTH Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,253
- 27%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology30.8%
- Financials16.3%
- Industrials10.8%
- Health Care9.3%
- Consumer Discr.8.7%
- Communication8.0%
- Cons. Staples4.9%
- Energy4.1%
- Materials3.3%
- Utilities2.3%
- Real Estate1.6%
Geography
- United States71.11%
- Japan5.87%
- United Kingdom3.66%
- Canada3.36%
- Switzerland2.52%
- Germany2.07%
- France2.04%
- Netherlands1.64%
- 7.73%
Developed 98% · Emerging 2%
URTH 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 | URTH |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.8% |
| 1 month | +0.5% |
| 3 months | +3.8% |
| 1 year | +17.3% |
| 3 years | +22.0% |
| 5 years | +11.9% |
| 10 years | +13.1% |
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 | URTH |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.8% | |
| 2025 | +21.4% | |
| 2024 | +18.7% | |
| 2023 | +24.0% | |
| 2022 | −18.0% | |
| 2021 | +22.3% | |
| 2020 | +15.8% |
URTH in the news
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URTH Dividends
- 1.35%
- $2.84
- $1.34 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.34 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.50 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $1.26 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $1.10 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $1.19 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.09 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $1.17 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.83 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $1.01 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.08 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.95 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $1.00 |
URTH Risk
- 12.0%
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.
- 1.23
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.
- −26.0%
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.
- 0.95
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
URTH Cost
- The middle half of Developed International Core funds
- Median 0.09%
13 of the 21 Developed International Core funds charge less.