iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE)
| Assets | $8.43B |
| Expense Ratio | 0.15% |
| PE Ratio | 14.77 |
| Shares Out | 64.90M |
| Dividend (ttm) | $2.82 |
| Dividend Yield | 2.16% |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Sep 16, 2025 |
| Payout Frequency | Quarterly |
| Payout Ratio | 31.88% |
| Volume | 329,017 |
| Open | 130.47 |
| Previous Close | 130.88 |
| Day's Range | 130.00 - 131.33 |
| 52-Week Low | 91.80 |
| 52-Week High | 131.33 |
| Beta | 1.00 |
| Holdings | 150 |
| Inception Date | Apr 16, 2013 |
About VLUE
Fund Home PageThe iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI USA Enhanced Value index. The fund tracks an index of large- and mid-cap US equities. Stocks are selected and weighted using fundamental metrics (earnings, revenue, book value and cash earnings), aiming for exposure to undervalued stocks in each sector. VLUE was launched on Apr 16, 2013 and is issued by BlackRock.
Top 10 Holdings
37.33% of assets| Name | Symbol | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Corporation | INTC | 6.35% |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | CSCO | 6.34% |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | MU | 5.77% |
| General Motors Company | GM | 4.09% |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | AMAT | 3.24% |
| AT&T Inc. | T | 2.61% |
| Bank of America Corporation | BAC | 2.47% |
| Ford Motor Company | F | 2.28% |
| Citigroup Inc. | C | 2.17% |
| RTX Corporation | RTX | 2.01% |
Dividends
| Ex-Dividend | Amount | Pay Date |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2025 | $0.66002 | Sep 19, 2025 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | $0.73579 | Jun 20, 2025 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | $0.67917 | Mar 21, 2025 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | $0.74803 | Dec 20, 2024 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | $0.84872 | Sep 30, 2024 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | $0.59122 | Jun 17, 2024 |
Performance
VLUE had a total return of 23.67% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 10.81%.
News
VLUE ETF: A Good Blend Of Value And Growth
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VLUE ETF: Look Elsewhere For Value Factored Equity Exposure
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VLUE: Value By Name And Portfolio
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VLUE Has Been Lagging Competitors For 12 Months
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VLUE: U.S. Value Stocks Are Undervalued In 2023
VLUE invests in low-priced stocks. While it might sound like a truism that low-priced stocks are undervalued, price and value are distinct from each other.
VLUE: Transparent Value With Little Industry Bets
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VLUE: Why Deep-Value Tech Doesn't Work
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VLUE: Why I Am More Pessimistic Now
VLUE is an inexpensive U.S. equities-centered fund favoring mega- and large-caps. VLUE has an interesting interpretation of the value strategy, with a composite used to select underpriced names, yet w...
Where BlackRock sees ‘tremendous' market opportunities for ETF investors in 2023 after damage to stocks, bonds
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VLUE Shows That Value Is The Only Way To Approach The U.S. Market
We feel rather strongly that market continues to be overpriced and that investors are playing a dangerous game speculating on peak rates and inflation. Manufacturing data is coming down, yes, but it's...
VLUE Might Have The Wrong Tech Exposures
VLUE is surprisingly tech-heavy, and in a lot of instances, the exposure was in the right place for the latest earnings call. The issue is on the consumer side, where real recession risks are showing.
VLUE: Beating The Market For 2 Years
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MGV And VLUE: 2 Large-Cap Value ETFs, But Only One Is A Buy
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VLUE: A Tech-Oriented Value Portfolio With Outperformance Potential
VLUE invests in lower-priced stocks based on three fundamental ratios. In spite of VLUE's methodology, the portfolio has resulted in a surprisingly heavy tech allocation.
The Tell: Here are the ETFs to buy on persistently higher inflation in 2022 and beyond, says BlackRock's head of iShares strategy
Given an outlook for high U.S. inflation that's likely to persist beyond 2022, Gargi Chaudhuri of BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest asset manager, says investors should continue to hedge their portf...
VLUE: Another Excellent Value ETF
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VLUE: Safer Than Most Value ETFs, But Lags The Market
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Blackrock iShares' Armando Senra, CFRA's Todd Rosenbluth and IndexIQ's Salvatore Bruno dig into an upcoming factor ETF rebalancing. With CNBC's Bob Pisani.
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During Refinitiv Lipper's fund-flows week ended April 28, 2021, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the twelfth week in 13. On Friday,...
The Right Time To Buy VLUE
Over the last twelve years since the financial crises, the value factor has underperformed most of the time. The recent rotation from growth to value may be the beginning of a longer-term trend.We bel...
The Year Of The Dow: Why 2021 Will Finally See DIA Outperform (Podcast Transcript)
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Top U.S. Value ETFs For January
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iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF: Exploring Its Value Credentials
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Sum Up The Pieces: The IShares Edge MSCI USA Value Factor ETF Could Be Worth $99
For the iShares Edge MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE), we found that the implied analyst target price for the ETF based upon its underlying holdings is $99.02 per unit.
How To Wade Back Into Value Stocks
Broadly speaking, value stocks continue incurring pain compared to their growth counterparts and that pain is passed onto passive index funds because many of those benchmarks feature overweight exposu...