iShares MSCI World ETF (URTH)
| Assets | $4.36B |
| Expense Ratio | 0.24% |
| PE Ratio | 23.20 |
| Shares Out | 28.10M |
| Dividend (ttm) | $2.29 |
| Dividend Yield | 1.47% |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Dec 17, 2024 |
| Payout Ratio | 33.67% |
| 1-Year Return | +17.14% |
| Volume | 349,867 |
| Open | 154.09 |
| Previous Close | 155.16 |
| Day's Range | 153.99 - 157.65 |
| 52-Week Low | 130.48 |
| 52-Week High | 163.18 |
| Beta | 0.98 |
| Holdings | 1422 |
| Inception Date | Jan 10, 2012 |
About URTH
Fund Home PageThe iShares MSCI World ETF (URTH) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI World index, a market-cap-weighted index of stocks that cover 85% of the developed world's market capitalization. URTH was launched on Jan 10, 2012 and is issued by BlackRock.
Top 10 Holdings
26.12% of assets| Name | Symbol | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Inc. | AAPL | 5.35% |
| NVIDIA Corporation | NVDA | 4.50% |
| Microsoft Corporation | MSFT | 4.39% |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | AMZN | 2.96% |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | META | 1.86% |
| Tesla, Inc. | TSLA | 1.80% |
| Alphabet Inc. | GOOGL | 1.57% |
| Broadcom Inc. | AVGO | 1.41% |
| Alphabet Inc. | GOOG | 1.36% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | JPM | 0.93% |
Dividends
| Ex-Dividend | Amount | Pay Date |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2024 | $1.103 | n/a |
| Jun 11, 2024 | $1.189 | Jun 17, 2024 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | $1.089 | Dec 27, 2023 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | $1.170 | Jun 13, 2023 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | $0.829 | Dec 19, 2022 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | $1.007 | Jun 15, 2022 |
News
URTH: Improving Macroeconomic Environment Will Act As Tailwind
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URTH: There Are More Affordable Ways To Achieve International Diversification
iShares MSCI World ETF captures a strong mix of U.S. and developed market holdings, but the fund has a relatively high expense ratio. There are multiple reasons to believe that international equities ...
URTH: Global Equities Appear Undervalued In February 2024
The iShares MSCI World ETF is a global equity fund with AUM of $3.13 billion recently, in spite of slightly negative net fund flows over the past year. URTH has a heavy weight in favor of the United S...
URTH: Too Much U.S.
iShares MSCI World ETF is heavily weighted towards US stocks, despite being a global fund. Top holdings include Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Alphabet. The ETF is predominantly invested in Inf...
Building True Resilience: Beyond URTH, A Pragmatic Approach
Explore the limitations of the MSCI World Index and ETFs like URTH in an era of market concentration and trillion-dollar valuations, prompting a need for general reevaluation. Understand how prioritiz...
URTH: Developed Markets Are At The Goldilocks Interlude
The iShares MSCI World ETF provides exposure to developed markets, not the entire world, and its share price has been trending higher since October last year. The ETF's performance is largely correlat...
URTH: Rising Yields And Declining Profit Margins Could Put This ETF In Danger
iShares MSCI World ETF invests in stocks internationally within a variety of sectors. This ETF recently enhanced its United States-based holdings for their historical performance, but rate hikes could...
10 Dividend Stocks To Show The Advantages Of Investing In Individual Stocks Over ETFs
ETFs offer a wide range of advantages over selecting stocks individually. These advantages include a broader risk diversification than when investing in individual stocks.
How To Build A Portfolio That Combines An Attractive Dividend Yield With Dividend Growth
The long-term success of your investment portfolio is determined by its composition. Thereby, the selection of individual stocks has various advantages for you as an investor when compared to only inv...
URTH: Expect Negative Long-Term Real Returns On Global Stocks
The high weighting of overvalued U.S. stocks, the strong likelihood of profit margin mean reversion, and the weak growth outlook, suggest the URTH is unlikely to keep pace with inflation. The ETF has ...
URTH By Itself Is Riskier Than You Might Think - 7 Aspects Worth Considering
Investing in exchange-traded funds carries several risks, some of which are less obvious than others. In any case, investing in ETFs is not a foolproof way to get rich. Using iShares' MSCI World ETF U...
URTH Really Isn't Much Better Than The S&P
URTH is supposed to be the broadest ETF out there but it suffers from ultimately being dominated by US exposures and the US geography. As such, its multiple is high considering we're coming into a rec...
URTH Is Mostly Just The U.S., Make Narrower Bets
The discount of Europe from the US is the highest it's been in a while. With URTH you're mostly just investing in the US, and the US big cap stocks no less.
URTH: Global Stocks Are Likely To Power Higher
URTH is an effective global equity diversifier; the fund invests across the world in "Developed Markets" (including the United States). Based on current prices, URTH likely offers more upside. A protr...
URTH: Global Stocks Should Keep Rising
URTH is a global equity fund that offers investors the ability to invest in a basket of developed markets, not just the United States.
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URTH: A Safer Alternative To Holding SPY Or VOO
URTH is a fund that enables U.S. investors to hold a broader, more diversified and global equity portfolio, all in one managed ETF. Since U.S. equities look expensive at present, global diversificatio...
Will Household Savings Provide An Upside Growth Surprise?
Developed-market (DM) household savings recorded a significant gain last year, with an increase equivalent to 10% of combined gross domestic product (GDP). This build-up is likely to bolster consumpti...
URTH: Questionable Diversification Is A Flaw
The benchmark that is at the crux of URTH is the eponymous index provided by MSCI. With a NAV of $1.14 billion, URTH is exceedingly tech-heavy. The prominent FAANGM cohort occupies the leading positio...
MSCI World - It's U.S. Stocks And Tech, Not 'The World'
Following a reader request, I'm writing an article on something I usually don't cover - indexes and the continuous, frequent investments in indexes as an alternative to an international portfolio.
The Best (and Only) ETF That Tracks the MSCI World Index
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URTH: There Are Too Many Problems Impacting The Developed World
URTH: There Are Too Many Problems Impacting The Developed World
URTH: When Looking Outside U.S., Consider A Developed World ETF
URTH: When Looking Outside U.S., Consider A Developed World ETF