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.
| Segment | Commodities: Precious Metals Gold |
| Category | Precious Metals |
| Focus | Gold |
| Niche | Physically Held |
| Strategy | Vanilla |
| Weighting Scheme | Single Asset |
This section compares how balanced and deep this ETF is relative to its peers.
| IAU | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Holdings | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| % of Assets in Top 10 | 100.00% | 96.00% | 100.00% |
| % of Assets in Top 15 | 100.00% | 96.00% | 100.00% |
| % of Assets in Top 50 | 100.00% | 96.00% | 100.00% |
| IAU | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large (>12.9B) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Mid (>2.7B) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Small (>600M) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Micro (<600M) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
This section compares the P/E ratio of this ETF to its peers.
This section compares the dividend yield of this ETF to its peers.
| IAU | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend | N/A | $ 0.26 | $ 0.35 |
| Dividend Date | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Annual Dividend Rate | N/A | $ 0.20 | $ 0.31 |
| Annual Dividend Yield | N/A | 0.39% | 0.61% |
View charts featuring IAU price and volume data.
View charts featuring ETF fund flow data.
5 Day Net Flows: -40.15 M 1 Month Net Flows: 183.12 M 3 Month Net Flows: -323.7 M 6 Month Net Flows: -2.61 B 1 Year Net Flows: -1.78 B 3 Year Net Flows: 5.28 B 5 Year Net Flows: 10.52 B 10 Year Net Flows: 12.21 BView charts that break down the influence that fund flows and price had on overall assets.
5 Day Net AUM Change: 5.86 MThe 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 ETF Database 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 ETF Database Pro. To view information on how the ETF Database Realtime Ratings work, click here.
This section compares the cost efficiency of this ETF to its peers.
| Max ST Capital Gains Rate | 39.60% |
| Max LT Capital Gains Rate | 28.00% |
| Tax On Distributions | Return of Capital |
| Distributes K1 | No |
IAU does not have an ESG score. There are no ESG themes that map to this ETF.
This section shows how this ETF has performed relative to its peers.
| IAU |
ETF Database
Category Average |
Factset Segment
Average |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month Return | 4.83% | 1.31% | 3.77% |
| 3 Month Return | 15.88% | 13.28% | 12.36% |
| YTD Return | 4.83% | 1.31% | 3.77% |
| 1 Year Return | 5.47% | 2.25% | 3.76% |
| 3 Year Return | 19.51% | 10.93% | 8.57% |
| 5 Year Return | 39.78% | 17.62% | 12.30% |
The following charts reflect the geographic spread of IAU's underlying holdings.
The following charts reflect the allocation of IAU's underlying holdings.
This section shows how the volatility of this ETF compares to the peer group ETF Database Category.
| 5 Day Volatility | 68.59% |
| 20 Day Volatility | 15.28% |
| 50 Day Volatility | 14.79% |
| 200 Day Volatility | 16.48% |
| Beta | 0.1 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.86% |
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