BAI iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BAI returned 19.6%, against 47.8% for ARTY.
Promise check: Not measuredIts theme exposure is measured once ETFIQ defines its theme company by company.
BAI risk and return scorecard
vs ARTY · Nov 2024 to Oct 2026 · 103 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
Money in and out
Net fund flows · Oct 23, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Artificial intelligence · holdings as of Oct 27, 2026More on BAI
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$43.62+2.5%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was +19.6%. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (ARTY) | Gap to ARTY | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −6.7% | −4.3% | −2.4 pts | +0.9% |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +16.3% | +21.4% | −5.1 pts | +6.1% |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +5.1% | +22.9% | −17.8 pts | +9.1% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +31.0% | +54.7% | −23.7 pts | +14.1% |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +19.6% | +47.8% | −28.2 pts | +13.6% |
| Since launch Oct 22, 2024 – Oct 28, 2026 | +77.2% | +110.7% | −33.5 pts | +35.4% |
| Since launch, annualised Oct 22, 2024 – Oct 28, 2026 | +32.8% | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Oct 2024: no 3 years windows.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
How much of its weight does it not share with the S&P 500?
That is the share of the 112 thematic ETFs with at least half their money in S&P 500 companies sitting at or below BAI.
Weight not shared with the S&P 500 only; it says nothing about returns, fees or whether the theme pays off. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.
How different its holdings are from the S&P 500, ranked against 112 thematic ETFs with at least half their money in S&P 500 companies. 100 is best. How it is computed
BAI shares 20 of its 49 holdings with the S&P 500. Counting each at the smaller of its two weights, the two overlap by 24.1%.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 23, 2026BAI: in the year to Oct 23, 2026, net $3.6bn came in; in the month to Oct 23, 2026, $156m came in.
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Sep 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026
SEC filings, then daily counts
BAI, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 26 days and went out on 19 days.
Money in on 26 of the 63 trading days, out on 19.
BAI, net flow each trading day over the 249 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 166 days and went out on 37 days.
Money in on 166 of the 249 trading days, out on 37.
BAI, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 24, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 261 days and went out on 42 days.
Money in on 261 of the 400 trading days, out on 42.
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value.
How this is computed
Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Checked against the filing: The month’s daily sum and the filing’s B.6 number agree within rounding or, where the filing’s is larger, within rounding plus the fund’s creation and redemption fees. The full rule is in the fund’s flows file. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for BAI, back to Oct 2024, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare BAI with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months63 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year52 weeks
Net flow into BAI each week, Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outOct 2024 to Oct 2026
BAI, money in and money out each month from Oct 2024 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Oct 2024 to Jul 2026 are from BAI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Aug 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 25 months listed, money came in on net in 23 and went out in 2.
Bars for Oct 2024 to Jul 2026 are from BAI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Aug 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 25 months listed, money came in on net in 23 and went out in 2.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 23, 2026.
BAI key stats
Trading
as of Oct 28, 2026
BAI top ten by weight, 42.5% of the fund, of its 49 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: iShares’s daily holdings file. Data as of Oct 27, 2026. Updated each trading day. Last checked Oct 28, 2026.
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About BAI
How we measure
12 seats on BAI, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 9 Challenges, 2 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about BAI
- How much of BAI is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 55% of BAI by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Its active share against the index is 76%, so that share is the part doing something different.
- What does BAI hold?
- 49 positions as published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, with the top ten at 42% of the fund. The largest are MICRON TECHNOLOGY at 6.2%, NVIDIA at 5.6%, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES at 5.5%.
- Has BAI beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 BAI returned +19.6% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for the S&P 500, so it finished ahead of the index by 6.0 points.
- What does BAI cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.55% a year. Because 76% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.72%.
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