iShares Global Healthcare ETF
IXJ NYSE Arca
The iShares Global Healthcare ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of global equities in the healthcare sector.
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- Fund size
- 2.00B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.48% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.29% Semiyearly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 15.9% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.45 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 89.79111.74
How IXJ has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 29Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, IXJ returned +25.9% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +1.6 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 ±16% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −10.8% on Apr 29, 2026 — 61 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 33% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.45 means IXJ 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 average108.45 +3.0%
- 26-day average106.47 +5.0%
- 50-day average104.76 +6.7%
- 200-day average99.14 +12.7%
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
Healthcare · Healthcare — tracking the S&P Global 1200 Healthcare Sector Index™.
- Assets under management2.00BUSD
- Expense ratio0.48%per year
- Holdings119
- Risk score5.1Medium
Launched November 2001. 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 13 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.44
- Frequency
- Semiyearly
- Last paid
- Jun 15, 2026
Last 12 months
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About iShares Global Healthcare ETF
The iShares Global Healthcare ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of global equities in the healthcare sector.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 119 holdings
- Ticker
- IXJ
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US4642873255
- CUSIP
- 464287325
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Healthcare
- Benchmark
- S&P Global 1200 Healthcare Sector Index™
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 29, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.