iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
$48.84+0.01 (+0.03%)
- 0.04%
- $17.6B
- −1.7%
- 4.99%
- 2.1M sh
- $48.75
- low $48.30high $52.72
The ETF.net USIG Grade
A
Score 89 out of 100
- 1 of 49
Score 89 of 100 falls in the A band. A is 70 or higher, B 55 to under 70, C 40 to under 55, D 25 to under 40, F under 25.
Cost
The fund’s net expense ratio, ranked against its category.A98 out of 100Rank 1 of 49Mission
Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.A100 out of 100Rank 1 of 45Risk
How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.C44 out of 100Rank 27 of 49Tradability
How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.A94 out of 100Rank 3 of 49Holdings
How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.A97 out of 100Rank 1 of 49Durability
Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.A92 out of 100Rank 2 of 49
Our read on USIG
AMost investment-grade corporate bond funds hand you one slice of the maturity curve. USIG takes the whole thing, thousands of US dollar corporate bonds from short-dated to long, for four basis points a year.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade corporate bonds.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.04% a year, against a category median near 0.19%. CORP, which tracks the same ICE BofA US Corporate Index, charges 0.41%.
- One ticker, the full USD investment-grade corporate curve: thousands of bonds, short to long. Slice funds like IGSB (1-5 year) and IGIB (5-10 year) each cover one segment.ishares.com
- Running since 2007, it has tracked its index with very little drift and is one of the more actively traded funds in its category.
- Interest lands monthly, and this is a multi-billion-dollar fund that ranks among the strongest implementations in its peer group.
Worth knowing
- Owning the whole curve means long-dated bonds ride along, so the price swings more when rates move than a short-maturity slice such as IGSB.
- This is corporate credit, not Treasuries. Investment grade at purchase, but prices can fall when spreads widen or an issuer is downgraded.ishares.com
- VCIT edges it on fee at 0.03%, though that fund stays in intermediate maturities rather than the full curve.
USIG Holdings
- Bonds
- 11,585
- 1%
- Sopaipilla Investor Llc 144A 7.53% 11/30/2048
Geography
- United States79.36%
- United Kingdom3.86%
- Canada2.98%
- Japan2.36%
- France1.72%
- Netherlands1.16%
- Australia1.09%
- Ireland0.71%
- 6.75%
USIG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
USIG$9,827
Returns run to the Oct 12, 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 | USIG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −2.2% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −2.5% |
| 1 year | −1.7% |
| 3 years | +5.6% |
| 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 | USIG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −2.2% | |
| 2025 | +7.9% | |
| 2024 | +2.6% | |
| 2023 | +8.7% | |
| 2022 | −15.3% | |
| 2021 | −1.3% | |
| 2020 | +9.4% |
USIG in the news
Filings Digest
VanEck cuts its CLO ETF fee from 0.36% to 0.29%
USIG Dividends
- 4.99%
- $2.44
- $0.21 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
USIG Risk
- 6.2%
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.
- 0.12
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.
- −21.1%
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.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
USIG Cost
0.04%
USIG0.04%
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.29%
2 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.
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