ISTM iShares Strategic Metals ETF
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Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, ISTM returned 18.3%.
Promise check: Not measuredETFIQ has not yet listed which companies belong to the rare earth and critical materials theme.
ISTM risk and return scorecard
vs its own holdings
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 · Nov 3, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Rare earth and critical materials · holdings as of Nov 3, 2026More on ISTM
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$27.98+2.2%1 day, priceClose, Nov 4, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
| Window | Total return | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|
| 1M Oct 5 – Nov 4, 2026 | −6.1% | −1.0% |
| 3M Aug 5 – Nov 4, 2026 | −8.4% | −0.1% |
| 6M May 6 – Nov 4, 2026 | −12.6% | +5.0% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026 | −1.6% | +13.3% |
| 1Y Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026 | +18.3% | +14.8% |
| 3Y Nov 3, 2023 – Nov 4, 2026 | +68.3% | +82.9% |
| Since launch Sep 28, 2023 – Nov 4, 2026 | +66.9% | +85.5% |
| Since launch, annualised Sep 28, 2023 – Nov 4, 2026 | +18.0% | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Nov 3, 2026ISTM: in the year to Nov 3, 2026, net $15.9m came in; in the month to Nov 3, 2026, $6.0m went out.
Nov 3, 2026
Oct 28, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026
Oct 5, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026
Aug 4, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026
Nov 4, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026
SEC filings, then daily counts
ISTM, net flow each trading day over the 65 sessions from Aug 4, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 1 day and went out on 1 day.
Money in on 1 of the 65 trading days, out on 1.
ISTM, net flow each trading day over the 251 sessions from Nov 4, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 4 days and went out on 1 day.
Money in on 4 of the 251 trading days, out on 1.
ISTM, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Apr 2, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 4 days and went out on 1 day.
Money in on 4 of the 400 trading days, out on 1.
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 ISTM, back to Sep 2023, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare ISTM with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months65 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year53 weeks
Net flow into ISTM each week, Nov 4, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outDec 2023 to Nov 2026
ISTM, money in and money out each month from Dec 2023 to Oct 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Dec 2023 to Jul 2026 are from ISTM’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Aug 2026 to Oct 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Nov 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 4 and went out in 2.
Bars for Dec 2023 to Jul 2026 are from ISTM’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Aug 2026 to Oct 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 4 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 Nov 3, 2026.
ISTM key stats
Trading
as of Nov 4, 2026
ISTM for holders outside the US
ISTM top ten by weight, 11.2% of the fund, of its 86 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Nov 3, 2026. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: iShares’s daily holdings file. Updated each trading day. Last checked Nov 4, 2026.
About ISTM
How we measure
12 seats on ISTM, as of Nov 4, 2026: 1 Mixed, 6 Challenges, 5 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about ISTM
- How much of ISTM is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings published by its issuer for Nov 3, 2026, 1% of ISTM by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Its active share against the index is 100%, so that share is the part doing something different.
- What does ISTM hold?
- 86 positions as published by its issuer for Nov 3, 2026, with the top ten at 11% of the fund. The largest are CRH AMERICA FINANCE INC 144A at 1.9%, DTE ELECTRIC CO at 1.1%, GLENCOVE FUNDING LLC 144A at 1.1%.
- Has ISTM beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Nov 4, 2026 ISTM returned +18.3% with distributions reinvested, against +14.8% for the S&P 500, so it finished ahead of the index by 3.5 points.
- What does ISTM cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.47% a year. Because 100% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.47%.
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