IBIT iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF
A spot Bitcoin trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, IBIT returned −32.7% against Bitcoin’s −33.2%, 0.48 of a percentage point ahead.
Key facts
ETFIQ Coin Capture Score
31.8joint 15th of 22
IBIT kept 100.7% of what holding Bitcoin gave over the same days.
How much of what holding the coin gave did a holder of the fund keep?
That is the share of the 22 spot crypto ETPs with a full year sitting at or below IBIT. A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another desk's.
Period by period
| Window | The fund | Bitcoin | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | +22.0% | +21.8% | +0.2 pts |
| 3 months | +21.4% | +21.5% | −0.1 pts |
| 6 months | +8.4% | +8.8% | −0.4 pts |
| 1 year | −32.7% | −33.2% | +0.5 pts |
| Since it listed | +64.4% | +66.6% | −2.2 pts |
In plain words
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, Bitcoin moved −33.2% and IBIT returned −32.7%. That leaves it 0.48 of a percentage point ahead. That difference is the fee, the custody cost, the friction of creating and redeeming shares in blocks, and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin, all of it together. It is the only figure on this page the sponsor does not publish itself. IBIT charges 0.25% a year and still finished 0.5% ahead of Bitcoin, which a fee cannot do on its own. On a chain with nothing to stake, a fund cannot earn its way past the asset it holds: what moved is what the market paid for the shares. A spot trust is not a registered investment company. It files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT, and its holding is one line: the Bitcoin it custodies.
| Sponsor | iShares |
|---|---|
| Holds | Bitcoin |
| Sponsor’s fee (10-Q) | 0.25% |
| Fee waiver | reduced to 0.12%, on the first $5.0 billion of assets. Past that the difference from the coin widens by the amount waived. |
| Net assets (the issuer own daily fund list, as of Sep 11, 2026) | $60.6bn |
| Staking | the chain has none, so no fund holding it can pay a staking yield |
| Listed since | Jan 11, 2024 |
| Days traded | 669 |
| Days it closed unchanged | 2 |
| Quoted | on an exchange, every trading day |
| Price | $43.77 |
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
- Does IBIT track Bitcoin?
- Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned −32.7% against Bitcoin’s −33.2%, which leaves it 0.48 of a percentage point ahead. That difference carries the fee, the custody cost and the market’s pricing of the shares, and ETFIQ computes it from the fund’s own closes and the coin’s own closes over the same two dates.
- Does IBIT stake?
- Bitcoin is a proof of work chain, so there is nothing to stake and no fund holding it can pay a staking yield.
- What is IBIT?
- iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, a spot Bitcoin trust sponsored by iShares, listed Jan 11, 2024. It holds the coin through a custodian rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it.
The words on this page
- Tracking difference
- The fund’s total return minus the coin’s over exactly the same days, in percentage points. The fee, the custody cost, the creation and redemption friction and whatever the market paid for the shares, all of it, in one number.
- Spot
- The fund holds the coin itself, through a custodian, rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it. Only spot funds are on this desk; the others are measured where they belong.
- Sponsor
- Who runs the trust. A spot crypto ETF is a 1933 Act trust rather than a registered investment company, so it has a sponsor rather than an adviser, and files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT.
- Thinly quoted
- A fund whose price sat unchanged on more than one trading day in twenty. Its quoted return is what somebody paid on the days anyone traded, which is not the same thing as what the fund did, so ETFIQ shows it and does not rank it against funds that trade.
- Staking
- Only proof of stake coins can be staked, so it exists for ether and Solana funds and cannot exist for a bitcoin one. Where a fund stakes, the yield and the sponsor’s share of it are terms in its own filings.
Every term used here, defined in full on the crypto ETFs vocabulary page.
Where these figures came from
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