iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF
iShares Trust · 1 share class
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF is a U.S. equity index ETF that tracks the MSCI USA Small Cap Extended ESG Focus Index. 24% of ESML’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 96% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Index (passive)
- Fund type
- ETF
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4
The iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (the Fund ) seeks to track the investment results of an optimized index designed to produce investment results comparable to a capitalization weighted index of small-capitalization U.S. companies, while reflecting a higher allocation to those companies with favorable environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) profiles (as determined by the index provider).
The fund tracks the MSCI USA Small Cap Extended ESG Focus Index using representative sampling, holding a sample of small-cap U.S. companies selected to match the index's characteristics while emphasizing those with favorable environmental, social and governance ratings; the index excludes tobacco, controversial weapons, civilian firearms producers, and certain fossil fuel activities, and reweights to achieve an ESG score at least 10% better than the parent small-cap index. Because the fund samples rather than holds all index constituents, its returns may diverge from the index.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| ESML | 0.17% |
Portfolio turnover 35.00% · as of 2025 Q4
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.38% |
| Cash & short-term | 5.94% |
| Other | 0.17% |
| Derivatives | 0.01% |
These positions come to 105.50% of the fund's net assets. This counts only what the fund reported holding — the holdings disclosure covers assets, not liabilities such as borrowings — so it is not expected to reconcile to 100%.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Industrials | 19.5% |
| Information Technology | 17.6% |
| Financials | 13.0% |
| Health Care | 11.6% |
| 10 smaller | 38.3% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Portfolio growth profile
How much of the fund’s stock holdings are in fast-growing companies · as of 2026 Q2
Share of the fund’s equity (by value) in companies whose trailing five-year revenue — or net-income — growth ranks in the top 25% of U.S. public companies. Foreign and newly-listed holdings are excluded, so the figure covers only part of the book. From SEC filings — not investment advice. How we measure this.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
May 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional; SL Agency Shares | 5.59% | — | $134.53M | — |
| SNDK | SANDISK CORPORATIONSNDK | 3.60% | $1,694.98 | $86.66M | 51.1K |
| FTI | TECHNIPFMC PLCFTI | 0.56% | $68.42 | $13.50M | 197.2K |
| AKAM | AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.AKAM | 0.45% | $149.54 | $10.94M | 73.1K |
| USFD | US FOODS HOLDING CORP.USFD | 0.45% | $81.85 | $10.80M | 132.0K |
| AIZ | ASSURANT, INC.AIZ | 0.45% | $248.87 | $10.73M | 43.1K |
| STRL | STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.STRL | 0.45% | $860.84 | $10.73M | 12.5K |
| OVV | OVINTIV INC.OVV | 0.43% | $56.04 | $10.47M | 186.8K |
| NVT | NVENT ELECTRIC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYNVT | 0.43% | $166.99 | $10.36M | 62.0K |
| XPO | XPO, INC.XPO | 0.41% | $214.25 | $9.99M | 46.6K |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-05-31 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 12.82% of net assets, top 25 18.21%, across 897 issuers.
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