iShares Future Exponential Technologies ETF
$83.78−0.64 (−0.76%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.46%
- Fund size
- $4.0B
- 1Y return
- +26.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.74%
- Holdings
- 194
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $84.03
- 52W range
The ETF.net XT Grade
Score 83 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 93Category 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.AScore 77Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 75Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 68Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 96Category rank
Our read on XT
AInnovation, spread thin on purpose. XT holds roughly 200 global companies scored by Morningstar analysts for exposure to a handful of exponential tech themes, so no single moonshot carries the fund.
XT seeks to track an index of stocks from developed and emerging markets whose companies create or use exponential technologies. The strategy targets technologies with potential economic benefits, including the ability to displace older technologies or create new markets.
Why people hold it
- Cheap for the theme at 0.46% a year, below the typical fee in its disruptive-innovation cohort and under peers like TRFM and FDTX.
- Human fingerprint on the stock list: Morningstar equity analysts score companies on theme exposure instead of sorting by keywords or revenue tags.sec.govassets.contentstack.io
- Global by construction (developed and emerging markets) and not fenced into the tech sector, so a drugmaker or an industrial can qualify on theme exposure.sec.gov
- Launched in 2015 and now a multi-billion-dollar iShares fund, it stands among the stronger builds in its innovation peer group.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- The index has been reworked since launch (weighting scheme, theme list), and themes get an annual review, so today's tilt is not fixed forever.indexes.morningstar.comsec.gov
- Moderately traded rather than a household name, which can mean wider spreads than the biggest tech ETFs.
- About 200 positions dilutes any single breakout winner, and distributions land only once or twice a year.
XT Holdings
- Stocks
- 194
- 35%
- TSLA
Sectors
- Technology43.1%
- Health Care28.4%
- Industrials8.5%
- Consumer Discr.7.0%
- Communication4.3%
- Utilities3.7%
- Financials3.1%
- Materials1.4%
- Energy0.4%
- Real Estate0.0%
- Cons. Staples0.0%
Geography
- United States69.99%
- Switzerland3.85%
- Japan3.68%
- United Kingdom3.65%
- Germany2.87%
- China2.52%
- Taiwan2.34%
- South Korea1.74%
- 9.37%
Developed 77% · Emerging 23%
XT Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
XT$12,689
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 | XT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +21.6% |
| 1 month | +1.8% |
| 3 months | +2.1% |
| 1 year | +26.9% |
| 3 years | +21.0% |
| 5 years | +7.7% |
| 10 years | +14.1% |
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 | XT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +21.6% | |
| 2025 | +26.3% | |
| 2024 | +0.3% | |
| 2023 | +27.0% | |
| 2022 | −27.8% | |
| 2021 | +16.4% | |
| 2020 | +35.1% |
XT in the news
XT Dividends
- 6.74%
- $5.69
- $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 | $5.33 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.0094 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.11 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.14 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.15 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.22 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.28 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.27 |
XT Risk
- 17.6%
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.
- 0.76
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.
- −34.4%
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.
- 1.35
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XT Cost
0.46%
XT0.46%
- The middle half of Disruptive Innovation funds
- Median 0.65%
3 of the 31 Disruptive Innovation funds charge less.