FundNYSEARCAHealth Care

iShares Health Innovation Active ETF

BMED NYSE Arca

The BlackRock Future Health ETF is an alpha-seeking actively managed ETF which publishes holdings daily, but without seeking to track a specific index. BMED seeks to maximize total return by investing in innovative and emerging companies in the healthcare sector

36.50USD

+8.30 (+29.45%) 1 Year · close Oct 30

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Dividend yield: 0.22%
Volatility · 1Y: 18.1%
Beta: 0.65
52-week range: 27.1936.72

01 Performance

How BMED has paid off

Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.

Return by period

Price · to Oct 30

Strong performance Select a period to update every chart on the page.

Total return vs price return

Price only

+0.3 pts

0%10%20%30% BMED +29.7% Price +29.4%

Over 1 year, BMED returned +29.7% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +0.3 pts to the price move.

02 Risk

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 · 1Y

18.1%Average Risk

A typical year sees the price swing about ±18% around its trend.

Drawdown from peak

How far below its previous high the price has been

−14.8%

0%-9%−14.8%

Deepest fall −14.8% on May 15, 2026 — 113 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 34% of the time.

Market sensitivity

Beta

Market moves+10.0%

BMED tends to move+6.5%

A beta of 0.65 means BMED has moved less than the market.

Sharpe ratio 1.25 Return earned per unit of volatility

03 Technicals

Trend & momentum

Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.

Price vs moving averages

Uptrend

36.50

12-day average35.61 +2.5%
26-day average35.00 +4.3%
50-day average34.25 +6.6%
200-day average31.36 +16.4%

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)

Overbought

OversoldOverbought70.4

RSI 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.

04 Dividends

What it pays you

Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.

Dividend yield0.22%

About 2 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.

Per share: 0.08
Last paid: Jun 15, 2026

Last 12 months

0.08 USD / share

0.08Jun 15

05 Themes

Where BMED shows up

Curated themes and indices that hold BMED. Open one to see it in context, or test the whole theme in a portfolio.

06 Profile

About iShares Health Innovation Active ETF

Featured in 2 curated themes

blackrock.com Since 2020

Ticker: BMED
Exchange: NYSE Arca
ISIN: US09290C4006
CUSIP: 09290C400
Currency: U.S. Dollar (USD)
Country: USA
Sector: Health Care
Industry: Research Advancement
Benchmark: MSCI All Country World Index

All key statistics

Details

NameiShares Health Innovation Active ETF

TickerBMED

ISINUS09290C4006

CUSIP09290C400

ExchangeNYSEARCA

CategoryHealth Care

Sub CategoryResearch Advancement

CountryUSA

CurrencyU.S. Dollar

Inception DateSep 29, 2020

BenchmarkMSCI All Country World Index

Shareas of Oct 30, 2026

Close Price USD36.50

52W Low / High 27.19 / 36.72

1Y Total Return28.61%
Strong

1Y Volatility17.88%
Average Risk

Beta0.65

12M Dividends0.08118

Last Dividend DateJun 15, 2026

Dist. Frequency-

Dividend Yield0.22%

Dataas of Nov 2, 2026

AUM-

Discount/Premium-

NAV-

Shares Outstanding-

Volume 20D Avg-

Nbr of Holdings-

Risk Rank-

Net Expense-

Options available-

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