iShares S&P Global Telecommunications Index Fund (IXP)
| 64.15 Data as of May 17 |  +0.14 / +0.22%Today’s Change | 54.13 Today|||52-Week Range 64.37 | +12.21% Year-to-Date |
Investment Objective
The investment seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S&P Global 1200 Telecommunications Sector IndexTM. The fund generally invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the underlying index and in depositary receipts representing securities of the underlying index. The underlying index measures the performance of companies that Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies ("S&P") deems to be part of the telecommunications sector of the economy and that S&P believes are important to global markets. The fund is non-diversified.
Latest IXP News
| Smart plays on smartphones Apr 23 / CNNMoney.com |
Performance
| 1 month | +4.60% | 3 years | +14.40% | |
| 3 months | +10.59% | 5 years | +2.28% | |
| 1 year | +21.49% | Since inception | +5.15% |
Data through 05/18/2013
Quote Details
| Previous close | $64.01 |
| Open day’s range | 63.86 – 64.17 |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 63.93 (05/17/2013) |
| Daily volume | 16,436 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 47,316 |
Data as of 3:59pm ET, 05/17/2013
Peer Comparisonvs. Communications ETFs
| IXP | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +2.28% | +5.74% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.48% | 0.49% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 0.24 | 0.36 |
| Net assets | $495.0M | $231.7M |
| Average market cap | $76.9B | $26.1B |
| Average P/E | 18.5 | 23.9 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.55% |
Competitors
| VOX Vanguard Telecommunication Services ETF |
| PBS PowerShares Dynamic Media Portfolio |
| IYZ iShares Dow Jones US Telecommunications ... |
| IST SPDR S&P International Telecommunication... |
Holdings
Top 5 SectorsPortfolio weighting
| Telecommunication | 98.56% |
| Media | 1.44% |
| Business service | 0.00% |
| Consumer goods | 0.00% |
| Consumer service | 0.00% |
Top 10 HoldingsPortfolio weighting
| T AT&T Inc | 16.51% |
| VZ Verizon Communications Inc | 12.37% |
| -- Vodafone Group PLC | 11.97% |
| -- Telstra Corp Ltd | 5.12% |
| -- Telefonica SA | 4.71% |
| -- China Mobile Ltd. | 4.66% |
| -- America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V. | 4.47% |
| -- SOFTBANK Corp | 3.69% |
| -- Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp | 3.12% |
| -- BCE Inc | 2.93% |