iShares Climate Conscious & Transition MSCI USA ETF
$86.79−0.65 (−0.74%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $2.9B
- 1Y return
- +12.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.04%
- Holdings
- 391
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $87.47
- 52W range
The ETF.net USCL Grade
Score 71 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 99Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 52Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 60Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 36Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on USCL
AMost ESG index funds work by exclusion. USCL scores roughly 400 US large and mid caps on where they're heading instead: emissions intensity, reduction targets, green revenue. And it charges 0.08% a year to do it.
The Fund seeks to track an index of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization companies selected for their relative positioning on the transition to a low-carbon economy, using climate-related measures such as emissions intensity, reduction targets, green-business revenue, and climate-risk management.
Why people hold it
- At 0.08% a year, it matches the cheapest fund in its ESG cohort (XVV) and undercuts ESGV, SNPE, EFIV and ESGU.ishares.com
- The index doesn't just screen out offenders. It selects on transition evidence: emissions intensity, reduction targets, green-business revenue, climate-risk management.ishares.com
- About 400 US large and mid caps, so it reads as core equity exposure with a climate tilt, not a narrow clean-energy sector bet.
- A multi-billion-dollar iShares fund that sticks tightly to the MSCI USA Extended Climate Action Index, one of the cleaner implementations in its peer group.
Worth knowing
- Trading is thin for a fund this size, so spreads can widen. Limit orders are the standard tool here.
- Climate scoring reshapes the sector and name mix, so results can diverge from a plain US large-cap index in either direction.
- Launched in 2023, so its history is short next to the older ESG funds it competes with.
USCL Holdings
- Stocks
- 391
- 46%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology42.3%
- Communication11.6%
- Health Care10.1%
- Consumer Discr.9.6%
- Financials9.5%
- Industrials6.2%
- Cons. Staples3.9%
- Energy2.0%
- Real Estate1.7%
- Utilities1.6%
- Materials1.5%
Geography
- United States97.15%
- Ireland1.38%
- United Kingdom0.51%
- Switzerland0.27%
- Singapore0.24%
- Uruguay0.16%
- Netherlands0.10%
- Australia0.06%
- 0.13%
USCL 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 | USCL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.9% |
| 1 month | +1.6% |
| 3 months | +5.8% |
| 1 year | +12.5% |
| 3 years | +21.2% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | USCL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.9% | |
| 2025 | +14.3% | |
| 2024 | +27.0% | |
| 2023 | +12.7% |
USCL in the news
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USCL Dividends
- 1.04%
- $0.91
- $0.20 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.26 |
USCL Risk
- 13.1%
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.
- 1.06
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.
- −19.0%
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.
- 1.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
USCL Cost
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
No US ESG & Values Index fund charges less.