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About ISHARES TRUST ESG MSCI USA SMALL-CAP ETF
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Inception date
Apr 10, 2018
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Replication method
Physical
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
ESML launched at a time of high investor sensitivity to producers and retailers of civilian firearms. The fund holds about 1,000 US small-cap companies with the highest ESG ratings. The index screens the US small-cap universe to exclude securities of companies involved in tobacco or controversial weapons, producers and retailers of civilian firearms, thermal coal and oil sands, as well as companies involved in severe business controversies. For each industry, MSCI identifies key ESG issues (such as climate change, resource scarcity, and demographic shifts). Each company is then rated based on their exposure and strategic response to the key issues, in comparison to their industry peers. The index is then optimized quarterly to maximize exposure to companies with higher ESG ratings, while providing investment results comparable to those of the parent index.
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Frequently Asked Questions
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a collection of assets (stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) that track an underlying index and can be bought on an exchange like individual stocks.
ESML trades at 596.000 MXN today, its price hasn't changed in the past 24 hours. Track more dynamics on ESML price chart.
ESML net asset value is 775.68 today — it's risen 3.71% over the past month. NAV represents the total value of the fund's assets less liabilities and serves as a gauge of the fund's performance.
ESML assets under management is 34.56 B MXN. AUM is an important metric as it reflects the fund's size and can serve as a gauge of how successful the fund is in attracting investors, which, in its turn, can influence decision-making.
See more dynamics on ESML price chart.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, showed a −2.21% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 14.22% in a year.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, showed a −2.21% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 14.22% in a year.
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ESML invests in stocks. See more details in our Analysis section.
ESML expense ratio is 0.17%. It's an important metric for helping traders understand the fund's operating costs relative to assets and how expensive it would be to hold the fund.
No, ESML isn't leveraged, meaning it doesn't use borrowings or financial derivatives to magnify the performance of the underlying assets or index it follows.
Yes, ESML pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 1.30%.
ESML trades at a premium (23.62%).
Premium/discount to NAV expresses the difference between the ETF’s price and its NAV value. A positive percentage indicates a premium, meaning the ETF trades at a higher price than the calculated NAV. Conversely, a negative percentage indicates a discount, suggesting the ETF trades at a lower price than NAV.
Premium/discount to NAV expresses the difference between the ETF’s price and its NAV value. A positive percentage indicates a premium, meaning the ETF trades at a higher price than the calculated NAV. Conversely, a negative percentage indicates a discount, suggesting the ETF trades at a lower price than NAV.
ESML shares are issued by BlackRock, Inc.
ESML follows the MSCI USA Small Cap Extended ESG Focus Index. ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
The fund started trading on Apr 10, 2018.
The fund's management style is passive, meaning it's aiming to replicate the performance of the underlying index by holding assets in the same proportions as the index. The goal is to match the index's returns.