iShares Edge MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
QUAL CBOE - exBATS
The iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization stocks with quality characteristics as identified through certain fundamental metrics.
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- Fund size
- 16.0B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.15% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.83% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 12.0% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.87 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 185.76227.72
How QUAL has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, QUAL returned +20.1% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +1.0 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±12% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −9.0% on Mar 30, 2026 — 33 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 6% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.87 means QUAL has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average225.18 +1.1%
- 26-day average223.66 +1.8%
- 50-day average222.12 +2.5%
- 200-day average211.20 +7.8%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Factors · Multi Factor — tracking the MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality Index.
- Assets under management16.0BUSD
- Expense ratio0.15%per year
- Holdings129
- Risk score3.8Low
Launched July 2013. Listed options available. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 8 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.89
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 15, 2026
Last 12 months
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About iShares Edge MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
The iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization stocks with quality characteristics as identified through certain fundamental metrics.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 129 holdings
- Ticker
- QUAL
- Exchange
- CBOE - exBATS
- ISIN
- US46432F3394
- CUSIP
- 46432F339
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Factors
- Industry
- Multi Factor
- Benchmark
- MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.