iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI)
| Assets | $15.61B |
| Expense Ratio | 0.15% |
| PE Ratio | n/a |
| Shares Out | 131.90M |
| Dividend (ttm) | $3.93 |
| Dividend Yield | 3.33% |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Jul 1, 2025 |
| Payout Frequency | Monthly |
| Payout Ratio | n/a |
| Volume | 990,386 |
| Open | 118.11 |
| Previous Close | 118.39 |
| Day's Range | 118.00 - 118.18 |
| 52-Week Low | 114.51 |
| 52-Week High | 120.33 |
| Beta | 0.13 |
| Holdings | 112 |
| Inception Date | Jan 5, 2007 |
About IEI
Fund Home PageThe iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the ICE BofA US Treasury (3-7 Y) index. The fund tracks a market weighted index of debt issued by the U.S. Treasury IEI was launched on Jan 5, 2007 and is issued by BlackRock.
Dividends
| Ex-Dividend | Amount | Pay Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2025 | $0.34222 | Jul 7, 2025 |
| Jun 2, 2025 | $0.36288 | Jun 5, 2025 |
| May 1, 2025 | $0.33504 | May 6, 2025 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | $0.34173 | Apr 4, 2025 |
| Mar 3, 2025 | $0.30383 | Mar 6, 2025 |
| Feb 3, 2025 | $0.32921 | Feb 6, 2025 |
Performance
IEI had a total return of 6.20% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 2.87%.
News
Most U.S. Treasury Prices Slide Since 'Liberation Day'
In recent days, a new headwind is weighing on fixed income securities: a US government budget bill, which is expected to significantly raise an already hefty federal deficit in the years ahead. Long-t...
Despite trade-war angst, junk bonds are holding up as Trump marks 100 days
A riskier part of the bond market is offering yields around 8%, according to a BlackRock strategist
IEI: Partial Oil Recovery Doing No Favours For Duration Bets
The iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF is sensitive to yield curve changes, making it risky amid rising inflation expectations and disappointments regarding rate cuts. IEI's irregular maturity profile...
IEI: The Prospects Don't Justify The Fees Right Now
IEI targets intermediate-term U.S. Treasuries but introduces unnecessary interest rate risk with a 4.26-year duration. Historical performance shows IEI's sensitivity to Fed actions, with significant p...
IEI: Significant Upward Shifts In The Yield Curve
Core inflation remains high, and if oil prices don't stay down, the headline and core readings should converge. With growth not a concern yet given the data, the Fed has less reason to cut rates, desp...
Rates Spark: ECB Presser Bear-Flattened The Curve
The ECB cut rates by 25bp as widely anticipated, but a slightly hawkish tilt bear flattened the EUR curve, which in our view remains priced aggressively. In the US, as the markets head towards the Fed...
IEI: When Apple And Microsoft Have Lower CDS Than US Treasuries
iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF is a popular investment option for those seeking exposure to US government bonds. The fund offers a relatively low expense ratio and allows easy investing into US Tr...
IEI: Appealing Fund With 5-Year Yields Above 4.2%
The market is re-pricing timing and number of rate cuts in 2024 due to higher-than-expected inflation. The market initially priced in rate cuts for early 2024, but stronger economic data and continued...
Estimating The Impact Of Lower Rates On Bond Fund Dividends
It generally takes a few years for changes in Federal Reserve rates to fully impact bond fund dividends. Bond funds are still benefitting from prior rate hikes. Perhaps by enough to cancel out any fut...
IEI: Jury Still Out On Inflation's Stickiness
IEI has seen a recovery in price due to expectations of rate cuts by the Fed. Concerns remain about inflation, which is still above policy levels, and the Fed may keep rates higher for longer as finan...
A September To Remember For The Bears, IEI's 4.7% Yield Looking Better
September saw declines in the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and small caps, as well as a decline in foreign stocks. The US Dollar ETF rallied, long-term Treasury yields rose, and oil prices increased, posing a...
Investors embrace these Treasury ETFs despite September slump, as ‘belly' of yield curve outperforms long end
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF TLT, which has lost 7.8% this month through Tuesday on a total return basis, attracted $357 million from investors on Tuesday, according to FactSet data. That wa...
Bank Loans And Junk Bonds Are Having A Good Year
Fixed-income investors looking for interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve are still waiting, but that hasn't stopped low-rated bonds from posting strong gains in 2023. Bond investors hoping for e...
Who Said Bonds Were Boring?
Yields on bonds have risen significantly in recent years, with even short-term Treasury bonds yielding over 5.5%. The inverse relationship between bond prices and yields means that as interest rates r...
Selling Time? Oil, Inflation, Debt Concerns And A T-Bill Portfolio
The market is showing signs of weakness and lacks sustainable upside momentum. The recent sell-off has broken key moving averages, indicating a potential shift in market sentiment.
Bond ETFs fall after Fed statement, struggle to recover earlier gains
Popular exchange-traded funds that buy bonds fell and then struggled to recover earlier gains on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve announced that it paused its interest-rate hikes but also released...
If This Ratio Flips, It May Be Time To Sell Stocks And Buy Bonds
Inflation remains above the Fed's target in 2023, leading to uncertainty about soft and hard-landing scenarios. Comparing the look of the stock/bond ratio in 2023 to historical hard-landing cases prov...
IEI: Finding Shelter In The Belly
With the market pricing in rate cuts at the front end, despite the Fed reinforcing its commitment to price stability, short-term USTs could be vulnerable to a steep repricing. Meanwhile, the long end ...
The All-Weather Dividend ETF Portfolio
In this article, we discuss a dividend-focused ETF portfolio aimed to provide consistently satisfying returns with subdued volatility. We start by assessing the theory behind ETF diversification, usin...
IEI: Coming Into Focus, But Not Quite There
IEI targets a specific range of the US Treasury yield curve. Specifically, 3-7 year bonds. The Fed's sharp series of interest rate hikes during 2022, and reaction of the bond market to those actions, ...
Bond Fund Investors Benefit From Large Declines In Yields During The Fund-Flows Week
At the beginning of the fund-flows week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that October headline inflation came in at a better-than-expected 0.4%. While yields at the shortest end of the cu...
‘They can actually derisk their portfolios': Here's where BlackRock is seeing iShares bond ETFs garner inflows amid climbing bond yields
Hello! In this week's ETF Wrap, I spoke with BlackRock's U.S. head of bond ETFs, Steve Laipply, and also caught up with Invesco's John Hoffman, the firm's head of ETFs and indexed strategies for the A...
IEI Duration Risks Are Becoming Harder To Assess
Our position till now has been pretty clearly anti-duration, where long-duration assets are concerning given rate trajectories. There is probably more scope for rate hikes and more risk of long-term i...