QUAL · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
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QUAL tracks the MSCI USA Quality Factor and returned +13.1% over the past year.
QUAL returned +13.1% over the year to Oct 28, 2026, charges 0.15% a year and holds $48.2bn in net assets on Oct 28, 2026.
Promise check: Not measuredNo other ETF tracks the index it names, so its tracking cannot be measured.
QUAL risk and return scorecard
vs MLRG · Jul 2013 to Oct 2026 · 691 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
How concentrated, and what does it cost?
MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality IndexMore on QUAL
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$223.110.0%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was +13.1%. 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 (MLRG) | Gap to MLRG | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.1% | +0.9% | −0.8 pts | +0.9% |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +3.5% | +6.3% | −2.8 pts | +6.1% |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +8.9% | +9.4% | −0.5 pts | +9.1% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +13.0% | +14.3% | −1.3 pts | +14.1% |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +13.1% | +13.6% | −0.5 pts | +13.6% |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +80.1% | +96.2% | −16.1 pts | +95.0% |
| 5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +66.7% | +76.5% | −9.8 pts | +79.8% |
| 10Y Oct 28, 2016 – Oct 28, 2026 | +290.4% | +297.1% | −6.7 pts | +325.8% |
| Since launch Jul 18, 2013 – Oct 28, 2026 | +442.4% | +433.8% | +8.6 pts | +472.2% |
| Since launch, annualised Jul 18, 2013 – Oct 28, 2026 | +13.6% | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 23, 2026QUAL: in the year to Oct 23, 2026, net $11.0bn went out; in the month to Oct 23, 2026, $181m 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
round trip, net −$159m
SEC filings, then daily counts
QUAL, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 37 days and went out on 18 days.
Money in on 37 of the 63 trading days, out on 18.
QUAL, net flow each trading day over the 249 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 91 days and went out on 109 days.
Money in on 91 of the 249 trading days, out on 109.
QUAL, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 24, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 146 days and went out on 180 days.
Money in on 146 of the 400 trading days, out on 180.
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Round trips: $3.6bn came in on Nov 21, 2025 and $3.7bn went out on Nov 25, 2025. A creation undone within days moves money in and straight back out, so it says little about what investors wanted. Both days stay in every total and are marked in the tables and the drawings.
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 QUAL, back to Aug 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare QUAL 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 QUAL 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 outNov 2023 to Oct 2026
QUAL, money in and money out each month from Nov 2023 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Nov 2023 to Jul 2026 are from QUAL’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 36 months listed, money came in on net in 21 and went out in 15.
Bars for Nov 2023 to Jul 2026 are from QUAL’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Aug 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 21 and went out in 15.
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.
QUAL key stats
Trading
as of Oct 28, 2026
QUAL top ten by weight, 44.5% of the fund, of its 119 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. An index fund holds what the index holds, so this is the index. 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 QUAL
12 seats on QUAL, as of Oct 28, 2026: 3 Supports, 2 Mixed, 6 Challenges, 1 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about QUAL
- How has QUAL performed?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, QUAL returned +13.1% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for its benchmark, the MSCI USA Index. Over three years the number is +80.1%.
- What does QUAL cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.15% a year.
- What does QUAL hold?
- 119 positions as published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, with the top ten at 44.5% of the fund. 97% of its weight is in stocks the S&P 500 also holds.
- How far is QUAL below its high?
- 2.0% below its high of Oct 12, 2026, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 28, 2026.
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