Has IRBO beaten the S&P 500?

Name: ETFIQ themes desk record for IRBO
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Data as of Sep 4, 2026. Holdings from the fund’s latest public SEC N-PORT filing; overlap and active share computed by ETFIQ against the IVV and QQQM books; returns from Tiingo end-of-day prices with distributions reinvested.

IRBO · iShares Future AI & Robotics ETF

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IRBO has no public holdings filing captured yet. Over the year to Sep 4, 2026 the fund returned +79.1% with distributions reinvested against +20.0% for the S&P 500, so a holder was ahead by 59.1 pts. It sits 5.6% below its all-time high of Jun 2, 2026.

IRBO (iShares Future AI & Robotics ETF), themes desk fields as of Sep 4, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Theme (ETFIQ, editorial)	Robotics and automation
Launched	Jun 28, 2018
3 months: total return / S&P 500 / gap / Nasdaq-100 gap (ETFIQ)	+7.9% / +4.7% / +3.2 pts / +5.8 pts
6 months: total return / S&P 500 / gap / Nasdaq-100 gap (ETFIQ)	+58.8% / +15.2% / +43.6 pts / +38.6 pts
1 year: total return / S&P 500 / gap / Nasdaq-100 gap (ETFIQ)	+79.1% / +20.0% / +59.1 pts / +53.5 pts
3 years: total return / S&P 500 / gap / Nasdaq-100 gap (ETFIQ)	+137.7% / +78.0% / +59.7 pts / +44.2 pts
since launch: total return / S&P 500 / gap / Nasdaq-100 gap (ETFIQ)	+243.1% / +221.3% / +21.8 pts / −99.4 pts
Below its all-time high (ETFIQ)	−5.6%

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Has IRBO beaten the S&P 500?: Over the year to Sep 4, 2026 IRBO returned +79.1% with distributions reinvested, against +20.0% for the S&P 500, so it finished ahead of the index by 59.1 points.

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