iShares Global Timber & Forestry ETF
$70.61−1.27 (−1.77%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $272M
- 1Y return
- −0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.34%
- Holdings
- 25
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $70.76
- 52W range
The ETF.net WOOD Grade
Score 35 of 100 sits in the D 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 31Category 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 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 25Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 48Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on WOOD
DWood is a commodity you can only really own through companies: timberland REITs, Brazilian pulp, Nordic paper, packaging. WOOD packs roughly 25 of them into one ticker and has been doing it since 2008.
WOOD is designed to follow an index of worldwide stocks involved in or connected with timber and forestry, giving investors targeted exposure to forest products, packaging, and paper businesses.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely narrow: the index targets companies that own, manage or supply the upstream chain of forests and timberlands, not a materials grab bag.spglobal.com
- Global by construction, developed and emerging markets both, so Brazilian pulp, Nordic paper and North American timber REITs sit side by side.blackrock.com
- Live since 2008, with a semiannual distribution schedule fed by paper, packaging and timber REIT dividends.blackrock.com
Worth knowing
- Concentrated: around 25 holdings and non-diversified by prospectus, so a handful of large names steer the ride.ishares.com
- At 0.39% it costs several times a broad materials index fund like XLB, VAW or FMAT, all near 0.08%. Narrow themes rarely come cheap.
- Thinly traded next to the big sector funds, and most holdings trade on overseas exchanges, so spreads can run wider.blackrock.com
WOOD Holdings
- Stocks
- 25
- 58%
- SUZB3.SA
Sectors
- Materials67.6%
- Consumer Discr.21.5%
- Real Estate11.0%
Geography
- United States18.57%
- Brazil14.55%
- Japan11.94%
- Sweden10.93%
- Finland10.89%
- United Kingdom6.78%
- China6.07%
- Ireland5.77%
- 14.51%
Developed 64% · Emerging 36%
WOOD 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 | WOOD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.7% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | +7.1% |
| 1 year | −0.5% |
| 3 years | +1.0% |
| 5 years | −1.8% |
| 10 years | +5.5% |
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 | WOOD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.7% | |
| 2025 | −3.3% | |
| 2024 | −4.2% | |
| 2023 | +13.8% | |
| 2022 | −19.3% | |
| 2021 | +17.0% | |
| 2020 | +20.3% |
WOOD in the news
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WOOD Dividends
- 2.34%
- $1.68
- $0.63 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.63 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.06 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.75 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.34 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $1.26 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $1.34 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.10 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $1.54 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.28 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.86 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.31 |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Jun 19, 2020 | $0.47 |
WOOD Risk
- 16.9%
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.
- −0.16
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.
- −30.7%
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.
- 0.74
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
WOOD Cost
- The middle half of Materials (Broad) funds
- Median 0.37%
8 of the 14 Materials (Broad) funds charge less.