IAU
iShares Gold Trust

Price: $34.15
Change: $0.2 (0.01%)
Category: Precious Metals
Last Updated:

Vitals

Issuer Blackrock Financial Management
Brand iShares
Structure Grantor Trust
Expense Ratio 0.25%
ETF Home Page Home page
Inception Jan 21, 2005
Index Tracked LBMA Gold Price PM ($/ozt)

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.

ETF Database Themes

Category Precious Metals
Asset Class Commodity
Commodity Type Precious Metals
Commodity Gold
Commodity Exposure Physically-Backed

FactSet Classifications

  • Segment Commodities: Precious Metals Gold
  • Category Precious Metals
  • Focus Gold
  • Niche Physically Held
  • Strategy Vanilla
  • Weighting Scheme Single Asset

Trading Data

Open - Volume -
Day Lo - Day Hi -
  • Open
  • Volume
  • Day Lo
  • Day Hi
  • 52 Week Lo $31.94
  • 52 Week Hi $37.30
  • AUM $28,318.8 M
  • Shares 836.4 M

Historical Trading Data

  • 1 Month Avg. Volume 9,844,091
  • 3 Month Avg. Volume 8,809,030

Alternative ETFs in the ETF Database Precious Metals Category

Type Symbol Expense Ratio Assets Avg. Daily Vol YTD Return
Cheapest GBUG 0.00% $40.1 M 611 -6.43%
Largest (AUM) GLD 0.40% $55.9 B 7 M -5.94%
Most Liquid (Volume) SLV 0.50% $13.2 B 24 M -8.26%
Top YTD Performer PGM 0.45% $5.3 M 245 -2.59%

Alternative ETFs in the FactSet Commodities: Precious Metals Gold Segment

Type Symbol Expense Ratio Assets Avg. Daily Vol YTD Return
Cheapest GBUG 0.00% $40.1 M 611 -6.43%
Largest (AUM) GLD 0.40% $55.9 B 7 M -5.94%
Most Liquid (Volume) GLD 0.40% $55.9 B 7 M -5.94%
Top YTD Performer BAR 0.17% $879.5 M 599,211 -5.72%

Top 15 Holdings

Concentration Analysis

This section compares how balanced and deep this ETF is relative to its peers.

Holdings Comparison

IAU ETF Database Category Average FactSet Segment Average
Number of Holdings 1 1 1
% of Assets in Top 10 100.00% 88.46% 81.25%
% of Assets in Top 15 100.00% 88.46% 81.25%
% of Assets in Top 50 100.00% 88.46% 81.25%

Size Comparison

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

IAU Valuation

This section compares the P/E ratio of this ETF to its peers.

IAU
P/E Ratio
N/A
ETF Database Category Average
P/E Ratio
N/A
FactSet Segment Average
P/E Ratio
N/A

IAU Dividend

This section compares the dividend yield of this ETF to its peers.

IAU ETF Database Category Average FactSet Segment Average
Dividend N/A $ 0.25 $ 0.35
Dividend Date N/A N/A N/A
Annual Dividend Rate N/A $ 0.19 $ 0.30
Annual Dividend Yield N/A 0.38% 0.62%

IAU Price and Volume Chart

IAU Fund Flows

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5 Day Net Flows: 0 1 Month Net Flows: -207.25 M 3 Month Net Flows: -66.39 M 6 Month Net Flows: -89.16 M 1 Year Net Flows: -1.52 B 3 Year Net Flows: 12.08 B 5 Year Net Flows: 14.01 B 10 Year Net Flows: 17.39 B

IAU Price vs Flows AUM Influence

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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 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.

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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 its peers.

Expenses Ratio Analysis

IAU
Expense Ratio
0.25%
ETF Database Category Average
Expense Ratio
0.46%
FactSet Segment Average
Expense Ratio
0.36%

Tax Analysis

Max ST Capital Gains Rate 39.60%
Max LT Capital Gains Rate 28.00%
Tax On Distributions No distributions
Distributes K1 No
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 peers.

IAU ETF Database
Category Average 		Factset Segment
Average
1 Month Return 2.71% 4.31% 2.35%
3 Month Return -0.41% -2.72% -0.79%
YTD Return -5.82% -6.77% -4.60%
1 Year Return -6.03% -3.35% -4.89%
3 Year Return 45.32% 31.05% 25.45%
5 Year Return 39.84% 21.64% 11.94%

Geographic Exposure

The following charts reflect the geographic spread of IAU's underlying holdings.

Holdings Analysis

The following charts reflect the allocation of IAU's underlying holdings.

IAU Technicals

Volatility Analysis

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

 
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5 Day Volatility
66.05%
Rank
14 of 26
Low
IGLD (16.89%)
High
PALL (224.35%)
20 Day Volatility
12.20%
Rank
21 of 26
Low
BGLD (8.18%)
High
PALL (41.69%)
50 Day Volatility
12.87%
Rank
17 of 26
Low
BGLD (7.45%)
High
PALL (44.78%)
200 Day Volatility
13.57%
Rank
16 of 26
Low
BGLD (6.78%)
High
PALL (40.48%)
Beta
0.08
Rank
19 of 25
Low
WGLD (-0.99)
High
SBUG (1.08)
Standard Deviation
1.10%
Rank
14 of 23
Low
GLDI (0.46%)
High
PALL (25.31%)

 
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Technicals

  • 20 Day MA $33.59
  • 60 Day MA $33.86
  • MACD 15 Period 0.43
  • MACD 100 Period n/a
  • Williams % Range 10 Day 31.30
  • Williams % Range 20 Day 20.69
  • RSI 10 Day 61
  • RSI 20 Day 55
  • RSI 30 Day 52
  • Ultimate Oscillator 42

Bollinger Bands

  • Lower Bollinger (10 Day) $33.31
  • Upper Bollinger (10 Day) $34.33
  • Lower Bollinger (20 Day) $32.94
  • Upper Bollinger (20 Day) $34.25
  • Lower Bollinger (30 Day) $32.93
  • Upper Bollinger (30 Day) $34.32

Support & Resistance

  • Support Level 1 $33.88
  • Support Level 2 $33.62
  • Resistance Level 1 $34.46
  • Resistance Level 2 $34.78

Stochastic

  • Stochastic Oscillator %D (1 Day) 51.14
  • Stochastic Oscillator %D (5 Day) 59.75
  • Stochastic Oscillator %K (1 Day) 48.40
  • Stochastic Oscillator %K (5 Day) 53.04

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