iShares MSCI Agriculture Producers ETF
$47.34+0.12 (+0.24%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $169M
- 1Y return
- +22.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.82%
- Holdings
- 125
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.85
- 52W range
The ETF.net VEGI Grade
Score 69 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.AScore 86Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 78Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 74Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 49Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 46Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 71Category rank
Our read on VEGI
BThe picks-and-shovels version of farming: VEGI holds the global companies behind agricultural products and equipment, as stocks rather than crop futures. Running since 2012, and priced under the typical global thematic fund.
The fund seeks to follow an index of global companies involved in agricultural products and equipment.
Why people hold it
- At 0.39% a year it undercuts the 0.56% median for its global thematic peer group, on a niche most broad-market funds barely touch.
- Equity exposure, not commodity futures. You own the producers and equipment makers themselves, so there is no futures roll schedule in the machinery.ishares.com
- Live since 2012 tracking an MSCI ACWI agriculture producers index: a long runway for a theme fund, and it sits in the top quartile of its global thematic cohort.
Worth knowing
- Diversification is the thin spot: roughly 130 stocks, all tied to one global industry, so the whole fund leans on a single crop-and-input story.
- Agriculture equities swing with crop prices, weather and fertilizer cycles, so the ride is bumpier than a broad global index.
- Mid-sized and only moderately traded, so spreads can run wider than in giant index ETFs. That shows up most on large or hurried orders.
VEGI Holdings
- Stocks
- 125
- 68%
- DE
Sectors
- Industrials35.8%
- Cons. Staples32.4%
- Materials31.9%
Geography
- United States63.61%
- Canada6.93%
- Norway4.18%
- Japan4.12%
- India3.42%
- United Kingdom3.03%
- Saudi Arabia2.50%
- China2.23%
- 9.99%
Developed 63% · Emerging 37%
VEGI 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 | VEGI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +23.5% |
| 1 month | +1.1% |
| 3 months | +9.5% |
| 1 year | +22.3% |
| 3 years | +9.7% |
| 5 years | +6.3% |
| 10 years | +9.1% |
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 | VEGI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +23.5% | |
| 2025 | +11.3% | |
| 2024 | −4.8% | |
| 2023 | −8.6% | |
| 2022 | +6.3% | |
| 2021 | +21.6% | |
| 2020 | +20.1% |
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VEGI Dividends
- 1.82%
- $0.86
- $0.36 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.50 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.40 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.56 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.37 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.55 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.42 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.39 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.25 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.03 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.37 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.20 |
VEGI Risk
- 15.1%
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.
- 0.30
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.
- −28.8%
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.
- 0.63
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VEGI Cost
- The middle half of Agriculture & Food funds
- Median 0.56%
No Agriculture & Food fund charges less.