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05/24 11:10pm ET

iShares Dow Jones US Telecommunications Sector Index Fund (IYZ)

27.05
Data as of May 24
 +0.08 / +0.30%
Today’s Change
20.66
Today|||52-Week Range
27.60
+11.50%
Year-to-Date

Investment Objective

The investment seeks to replicate the Dow Jones U.S. Select Telecommunications Index. 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 the telecommunications sector of the U.S. equity market. As of March 31, 2012, the underlying index was concentrated in the fixed-line telecommunications and mobile telecommunications industry groups, which comprised 70.37% and 29.63%, respectively, of the market capitalization of the underlying index. The fund is non-diversified.

No recent news for iShares Dow Jones US Telecommunications Sector Index Fund.

Performance

1 month+2.93% 3 years+15.37%
3 months+11.47% 5 years+4.16%
1 year+32.48% Since inception-3.07%
Data through 05/25/2013

Quote Details

Previous close$26.97
Open day’s range26.82 – 27.05
Net asset value (NAV)27.04 (05/24/2013)
Daily volume199,329
Average volume (3 months)404,958
Data as of 4:00pm ET, 05/24/2013

Peer Comparisonvs. Communications ETFs

 IYZCategory
Performance 5-yr return+4.16%+5.74%
Expense Gross exp ratio0.47%0.49%
Risk 5 year sharpe ratio0.310.36
Net assets$534.1M$231.7M
Average market cap$7.3B$26.1B
Average P/E24.623.9
Dividend / Share--0.55%

Competitors

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PBS PowerShares Dynamic Media Portfolio
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Holdings

Top 5 Sectors
Portfolio weighting
Telecommunication 92.46%
Industrial materials 3.78%
Media 3.76%
Business service 0.00%
Consumer goods 0.00%
Top 10 Holdings
Portfolio weighting
T AT&T Inc9.22%
VZ Verizon Communications Inc9.13%
S Sprint Nextel Corp6.71%
CTL CenturyLink Inc6.45%
CCI Crown Castle International Corp6.26%
LUK Leucadia National Corporation5.26%
SBAC SBA Communications Corp5.10%
NIHD NII Holdings Inc4.78%
TWTC tw telecom inc4.14%
WIN Windstream Corp4.03%