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ICVTISharesINDEX

iShares Convertible Bond ETF

$115.78-0.55% today
9212452-WK

The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the underlying index, and it will invest at least 90% of its assets in fixed income securities of the types included in the underlying index that BFA believes will help the fund track the underlying index. The underlying index is a subset of the Bloomberg U.S. Convertibles: Cash Pay Bonds Index, which measures the performance of the U.S. dollar-denominated convertibles market.

Price & daily flows
117.4108.399.2115.78DAILY NET FLOWAug 19Dec 16Apr 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 3Y SHOWN · NET +$4.9B OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$396M of net buying over the past month, about 5.1% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned +15.7% so far this year. At 0.20% a year it is not the cheapest way in — ESMV runs the same ground at 0.18%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$7.8Bassets under management
0.20%expense ratio · $20 per $10,000 a year
+$396Mnet flow, trailing month
585Kavg daily volume, 30 days
338holdings · US-domiciled
2015listed June 1, 2015 · beta 1.07
The book at a glance
5.7%2.1%1.9%1.8%1.4%1.3%1.1%1.1%0.9%0.9%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%

CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION5.72%
2ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD2.09%
3LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC 144A1.88%
4LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC1.81%
5COREWEAVE INC 144A1.36%
6BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 144A1.26%
7SEAGATE HDD CAYMAN1.07%
8NEBIUS GROUP NV 144A1.07%
9COREWEAVE INC 144A0.95%
10AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC 144A0.87%
11MKS INSTRUMENTS INC0.82%
12NEBIUS GROUP NV 144A0.78%
13NEBIUS GROUP NV 144A0.77%
14STRATEGY INC0.74%
15GAMESTOP CORP 144A0.74%

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Sector weights
Technology45.7%
Consumer Cyclical13.12%
Consumer Non-Cyclical8.17%
Electric7.22%
Capital Goods4.81%
Reits3.19%
Financial Other3.08%
Communications2.68%
Basic Industry2.37%
Energy2.3%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States84.35%
Netherlands4.53%
China4.08%
Israel1.79%
Australia1.33%
Canada1.14%
Bermuda0.89%
Singapore0.45%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-2.1%
1 month+1.8%
3 months+0.4%
6 months+10.6%
YTD+15.7%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week+$300M
1 month+$396M
3 months+$1.1B
YTD+$2.9B
1 year+$3.9B

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
24%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
18%realized volatility, 1 year
-11.7%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-6.8%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 5.7% of the book; the top ten carry 18%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 102 equally-weighted positions.

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
2calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
362Kshares traded
The case against ICVT

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat ICVT on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
ITOT iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF0.03%$97.9B+$245M-17bp on fee · 13× the assets · +$245M in over the monthHead-to-head
STIP iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF0.03%$16B+$288M-17bp on fee · 2× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-16bp on fee · 5× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IUSG iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF0.04%$33.8B+$668M-16bp on fee · 4× the assets · +$668M in over the monthHead-to-head
IUSV iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF0.04%$28.1B+$103M-16bp on fee · 4× the assets · +$103M in over the monthHead-to-head
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