iShares ESG Select Screened S&P Small-Cap ETF
$49.12−0.39 (−0.78%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.12%
- Fund size
- $207M
- 1Y return
- +16.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.94%
- Holdings
- 610
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $49.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net XJR Grade
Score 65 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 71Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 84Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 28Category 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.AScore 86Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on XJR
BXJR lays a light ESG screen over the S&P SmallCap 600, an index that only admits companies with positive earnings. Tobacco, thermal coal, oil sands and weapons get struck out; the rest of the small-cap field stays.
The fund seeks to track small-capitalization U.S. equities through an index that applies environmental, social, and governance screens for controversies and controversial business activities.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.12% a year, roughly a quarter of the median fee among the index-tracking funds it competes with.
- The parent S&P SmallCap 600 admits only companies with positive earnings in the latest quarter and the trailing four, so unprofitable small caps never make the list.spglobal.com
- Exclusions are spelled out: controversial weapons, small arms, tobacco, oil sands and shale, thermal coal, fossil fuel reserves. You can check what got left out.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- A smaller fund that trades lightly. Spreads can widen, so limit orders do real work here.
- The screen removes offenders rather than ranking companies on sustainability. A firm clears by avoiding the listed businesses and serious controversies.ishares.com
- Small caps swing harder than large caps in both directions, and the earnings rule softens that without erasing it.spglobal.com
XJR Holdings
- Stocks
- 610
- 5%
- EMN
Sectors
- Financials19.1%
- Industrials15.0%
- Technology15.0%
- Consumer Discr.14.3%
- Health Care11.5%
- Real Estate7.9%
- Materials4.5%
- Cons. Staples4.0%
- Energy3.5%
- Communication3.5%
- Utilities1.6%
Geography
- United States98.38%
- Bermuda0.66%
- Singapore0.32%
- Bahamas0.17%
- Israel0.16%
- Puerto Rico0.12%
- Ireland0.11%
- Cayman Islands0.08%
XJR Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
XJR$11,645
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 | XJR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.9% |
| 1 month | −4.5% |
| 3 months | −2.5% |
| 1 year | +16.4% |
| 3 years | +15.9% |
| 5 years | +6.6% |
| 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 | XJR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.9% | |
| 2025 | +4.7% | |
| 2024 | +9.6% | |
| 2023 | +16.4% | |
| 2022 | −17.3% | |
| 2021 | +25.0% | |
| 2020 | +34.4% |
XJR in the news
XJR Dividends
- 0.94%
- $0.47
- $0.14 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.0014 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.44 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Oct 2, 2023 | $0.14 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.11 |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Mar 29, 2023 | $0.10 |
XJR Risk
- 19.3%
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.
- 0.56
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.
- −27.1%
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.
- 1.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XJR Cost
0.12%
XJR0.12%
- The middle half of Other Major Indexes funds
- Median 0.29%
12 of the 42 Other Major Indexes funds charge less.