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IAU
iShares Gold Trust

Price: $16.82
Change: $0.27 (0.02%)
Category: Precious Metals
Last Updated:

Vitals

  • Issuer iShares
  • Structure Grantor Trust
  • Expense Ratio 0.25%
  • ETF Home Page Home page
  • Inception Jan 28, 2005
  • Tax Form 1099
  • Index Tracked Gold Bullion

Investment Themes

Analyst Report

This fund offers exposure to one of the world's most famous metals, gold. IAU is designed to track the spot price of gold bullion by holding gold bars in a secure vault, allowing investors to free themselves from finding a place to store the metal. While IAU isn't the most liquid way to gain exposure to gold, it does have among the lowest expense ratios, making it a solid choice for cost-conscious investors.

Trading Data

Open - Volume -
Day Lo - Day Hi -
  • Open
  • Volume
  • Day Lo
  • Day Hi
  • 52 Week Lo $15.94
  • 52 Week Hi $19.76
  • AUM $28,094.4 M
  • Shares 1,687.4 M

Historical Trading Data

  • 1 Month Avg. Volume 22,177,760
  • 3 Month Avg. Volume 23,030,314

Alternative ETFs in the Precious Metals Category

Type Symbol Expense Ratio Assets Avg. Daily Vol YTD Return
Cheapest SGOL 0.17% $2.3 B 1 M -7.28%
Largest (AUM) GLD 0.40% $57.5 B 8 M -7.29%
Most Liquid (Volume) SLV 0.50% $14.3 B 38 M -2.20%
Top YTD Performer PGM 0.45% $6.0 M 694 13.06%

Top 15 Holdings

Concentration Analysis

This section compares how balanced and deep this ETF is relative to the peer group ETFdb.com Category.

1
Number of Holdings
100.00%
% Assets in Top 10
 
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Number of Holdings
1
Rank
21 of 21
Low
IAU (1)
High
DGL (7)
% Assets in Top 10
100.00%
Rank
3 of 21
Low
BGLD (99.99%)
High
DGL (100.01%)

 
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IAU Valuation

This section shows how the P/E multiple of this ETF compares to the peer group ETFdb.com Category.

P/E Ratio
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IAU Dividend

This section shows how the dividend yield of this ETF compares to the peer group ETFdb.com Category.

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N/A
Low
IAUF (8.38%)
High
IAUF (8.38%)

IAU Fund Flows

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5 Day Net Flows: -190.38 M 1 Month Net Flows: -342 M 3 Month Net Flows: -1.66 B 6 Month Net Flows: -1.13 B 1 Year Net Flows: 6.08 B 3 Year Net Flows: 11.88 B 5 Year Net Flows: 15.94 B 10 Year Net Flows: 19.21 B

Realtime Rating

The adjacent table gives investors an individual Realtime Rating for IAU on several different metrics, including liquidity, expenses, performance, volatility, dividend, concentration of holdings in addition to an overall rating. The "A+ Metric Rated ETF" field, available to ETFdb Pro members, shows the ETF in the Precious Metals with the highest Metric Realtime Rating for each individual field. To view all of this data, sign up for a free 14-day trial for ETFdb Pro. To view information on how the ETFdb Realtime Ratings work, click here.

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Metric Metric Realtime Rating A+ Metric Rated ETF
Liquidity A n/a
Expenses A+ n/a
Performance
Volatility
Dividend
Concentration

A+ Overall Rated ETF:

IAU Expenses & Fees

This section compares the cost efficiency of this ETF to peers in the same ETFdb.com Category.

Expenses Ratio Analysis

ETF Average
0.536%
ETF Wtd. Average
0.19%
Category Average
0.49%
Expense Ratio
0.25%
Rank
5 of 23
Low
SGOL (0.17%)
High
BGLD (0.90%)
ESG Themes and Scores

IAU does not have an ESG score. There are no ESG themes that map to this ETF.

IAU Performance

This section shows how this ETF has performed relative to its peer group ETFdb.com Category.

0.54%
1 Week Return
1.75%
4 Week Return
-4.49%
13 Week Return
-7.48%
26 Week Return
-7.23%
Year to Date Return
2.00%
1 Year Return
30.29%
3 Year Return
42.18%
5 Year Return
 
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1 Week Return
0.54%
Rank
10 of 24
Low
PPLT (-2.82%)
High
PALL (4.41%)
4 Week Return
1.75%
Rank
2 of 24
Low
PGM (-2.18%)
High
PALL (2.51%)
13 Week Return
-4.49%
Rank
14 of 22
Low
IAUF (-5.06%)
High
PALL (13.88%)
26 Week Return
-7.48%
Rank
14 of 22
Low
DGL (-8.82%)
High
PLTM (38.69%)
Year to Date Return
-7.23%
Rank
14 of 22
Low
DGL (-7.92%)
High
PGM (13.06%)
1 Year Return
2.00%
Rank
19 of 22
Low
IAUF (-1.48%)
High
SIVR (66.22%)
3 Year Return
30.29%
Rank
9 of 15
Low
DGL (24.00%)
High
PALL (173.78%)
5 Year Return
42.18%
Rank
7 of 13
Low
PPLT (17.61%)
High
PALL (376.07%)

 
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IAU Price and Volume Chart

Sector Breakdown

IAU Technicals

Volatility Analysis

This section shows how the volatility of this ETF compares to the peer group ETFdb.com Category.

 
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5 Day Volatility
81.65%
Rank
9 of 24
Low
WGLD (10.76%)
High
DBS (261.29%)
20 Day Volatility
14.25%
Rank
15 of 24
Low
BGLD (10.67%)
High
PALL (34.15%)
50 Day Volatility
15.57%
Rank
14 of 23
Low
BGLD (9.81%)
High
PGM (31.90%)
200 Day Volatility
15.87%
Rank
21 of 22
Low
SGOL (15.85%)
High
DBS (37.19%)
Beta
0.06
Rank
22 of 22
Low
IAU (0.06)
High
SBUG (1.15)
Standard Deviation
0.86%
Rank
22 of 22
Low
IAU (0.86%)
High
PALL (19.75%)

 
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Technicals

  • 20 Day MA $16.50
  • 60 Day MA $16.86
  • MACD 15 Period 0.33
  • MACD 100 Period -0.38
  • Williams % Range 10 Day 8.70
  • Williams % Range 20 Day 4.71
  • RSI 10 Day 61
  • RSI 20 Day 53
  • RSI 30 Day 50
  • Ultimate Oscillator 60

Bollinger Brands

  • Lower Bollinger (10 Day) $16.38
  • Upper Bollinger (10 Day) $16.79
  • Lower Bollinger (20 Day) $16.18
  • Upper Bollinger (20 Day) $16.82
  • Lower Bollinger (30 Day) $16.11
  • Upper Bollinger (30 Day) $16.80

Support & Resistance

  • Support Level 1 $16.71
  • Support Level 2 $16.61
  • Resistance Level 1 $16.89
  • Resistance Level 2 $16.97

Stochastic

  • Stochastic Oscillator %D (1 Day) 61.20
  • Stochastic Oscillator %D (5 Day) 60.96
  • Stochastic Oscillator %K (1 Day) 55.29
  • Stochastic Oscillator %K (5 Day) 57.80

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