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ILCBISharesINDEX

iShares Morningstar U.S. Equity ETF

$106.63+0.15% today
8710852-WK

The fund generally will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of its underlying index and in investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the component securities of its underlying index. The underlying index measures the performance of stocks issued by large-mid capitalization companies that have exhibited similar “growth” and “value” characteristics, as determined by Morningstar, Inc.’s proprietary index methodology.

Price & daily flows
103.497.691.7106.63DAILY NET FLOWFeb 17Apr 17Jun 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 6M SHOWN · NET −$4M OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$445K of net buying over the past month, while the price has returned +12.8% so far this year. At 0.030% a year, nothing comparable on our shelf runs cheaper.

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

$1.3Bassets under management
0.030%expense ratio · $3 per $10,000 a year
+$445Knet flow, trailing month
11Kavg daily volume, 30 days
632holdings · US-domiciled
2004listed June 27, 2004 · beta 1.01
The book at a glance
NVDA-0.3%AAPL+1.7%MSFT+0.3%AMZN+2.4%GOOGL+0.1%AVGO-4.5%GOOG+0.1%META+0.7%MU-0.9%LLY+4.8%TSLA+3.6%JPM-1.9%BRKB-0.6%AMD-3.5%XOM-0.3%JNJ+1.0%V+0.7%WMT-0.6%ABBV+3.0%MA+0.3%CSCO-0.3%COST-0.4%BAC-1.9%INTC-3.6%AMAT-3.4%LRCX-5.7%PLTR+2.3%CVX+0.3%CAT-3.3%GEMRKKO

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

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1NVDANVIDIA7.80%$219.17-0.3%
2AAPLAPPLE6.63%$315.48+1.7%
3MSFTMICROSOFT5.28%$483.42+0.3%
4AMZNAMAZON 3.79%$265.60+2.4%
5GOOGLALPHABET2.98%$344.42+0.1%
6AVGOBROADCOM2.70%$362.90-4.5%
7GOOGALPHABET2.38%$341.65+0.1%
8METAMETA1.84%$547.13+0.7%
9MUMICRON TECHNOLOGY1.68%$932.98-0.9%
10LLYELI LILLY1.40%$1285.72+4.8%
11TSLATESLA1.42%$348.97+3.6%
12JPMJPMORGAN CHASE1.44%$356.33-1.9%
13BRKBBerkshire Hathaway Inc.1.37%$500.04-0.6%
14AMDADVANCED MICRO DEVICES1.22%$467.72-3.5%
15XOMEXXON MOBIL0.99%$165.10-0.3%

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Sector weights
Information Technology37.57%
Financials12.13%
Communication9.34%
Industrials9.27%
Health Care9.05%
Consumer Discretionary9.02%
Consumer Staples4.38%
Energy3.44%
Utilities2.01%
Materials1.87%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States99.81%
United Kingdom0.05%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-0.5%
1 month+3.6%
3 months+4.5%
6 months+13.3%
YTD+12.8%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week−$4M
1 month+$445K
3 months+$6M
YTD−$14M
1 year−$4M

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
13%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
13%realized volatility, 1 year
-9.3%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-1.2%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 7.8% of the book; the top ten carry 37%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 40 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
4Kshares traded
Most-traded holdings, options premiumBullishBearish
MU MICRON TECHNOLOGY$559M$663M
SNDK Sandisk Corporation $552M$572M
TSLA TESLA$485M$437M
NVDA NVIDIA$328M$348M
MRNA MODERNA$352M$316M

TODAY’S OPTIONS PREMIUM IN THE FUND’S UNDERLYING NAMES

The case against ILCB

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat ILCB 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+$245M75× the assets · +$245M in over the monthHead-to-head
DYNF BLACKROCK US EQUITY FACTOR ROTATION ETF$41.4B+$1.5B32× the assets · +$1.5B in over the monthHead-to-head
IUSG iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF0.04%$33.8B+$668M26× the assets · +$668M in over the monthHead-to-head
IUSV iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF0.04%$28.1B+$103M21× the assets · +$103M in over the monthHead-to-head
IVV iShares Core S&P 500 ETF0.03%$900.9B−$14.2B688× the assetsHead-to-head
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