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ESMLiShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF

Grow my money8y track recordRanked #280 of 2,960 in this goal

Seeks to track the investment results of an optimized index designed to produce investment results comparable to small-cap U.S. companies.

By iShares · Launched 2018

Annual Cost

0.17%

#834 of 5,562 · low cost

Fund Size

$2.4B

#656 of 5,562 · large

Return (1Y)Goal

+37.6%

Track Record

8 years

#1,729 of 5,562 · established

Performance

Total-return NAV · USD
Growth of $10,000
$13,572+35.7%

Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.

Classification

How Beacon categorizes this fund

Asset class

Equity

Cap

Small

Strategy

Index tracking

Focus

ESG

Index tracked

MSCI USA Small Cap Extended ESG Focus Index

What it actually holds

By weight

Concentration

Top 10 holdings = 9.7% of fundwell diversified

BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional; SL Agency Shares
5.2%
SUNOCOCORP LLC
0.7%
US FOODS HOLDING CORP.
0.5%
SANDISK CORPORATION
0.5%
CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC.
0.5%
ASSURANT, INC.
0.5%
TECHNIPFMC PLC
0.4%
Coherent Corp.
0.4%
BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agency Shares
0.4%
LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC.
0.4%

Asset allocation

Stocks
99.5%
Cash
0.5%

By sector

Technology
20.8%
Industrials
17.8%
Financial Services
13.8%
Healthcare
12.8%
Consumer Cyclical
10.7%
Real Estate
6.5%
Energy
4.8%
Basic Materials
4.0%
Other
8.7%

Risk profile

Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ years
Volatility (1Y)
17.1%Moderate

Year-on-year price swings

Max drawdown
-42.0%Severe

Worst peak-to-trough loss

Sharpe (3Y)
0.71Decent risk-adjusted returns
Sortino (3Y)
1.05Good downside protection

Where to buy

Listing

Exchange
Cboe BZX

Full fund details

Objective
Seeks to track the investment results of an optimized index designed to produce investment results comparable to small-cap U.S. companies.
Strategy
Tracks the MSCI USA Small Cap Extended ESG Focus Index, which is designed to produce results comparable to the MSCI USA Small Cap Index while reflecting a higher allocation to companies with favorable ESG profiles. The Index Provider excludes companies involved in tobacco, controversial weapons, and certain fossil fuels, and uses a quantitative process to optimize weights for securities to maximize ESG exposure. The Fund invests at least 90% of its assets in the Underlying Index components and may use representative sampling indexing strategy.
Inception date
April 10, 2018
Fund family
iShares

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Data updated on 2026-06-19