IAU
GoldiShares Gold Trust
iShares · Tracks LBMA Gold Price PM · Inception Jan 21, 2005
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +0.4%
- 3 year
- +26.3%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +17.4%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.25% expense ratio.
Based on $62.22B in net assets.
Not scored — a bullion trust holds one allocated-metal position, so there is no basket to be concentrated in.
Gold base · Grantor-trust wrapper · 0.00% TTM yield.
Tracking error vs. the largest catalog peer tracking the same index. Not yet part of the composite — see methodology.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Add tickers and weights; N-PORT positions are summed across the basket.
Tool · Cost
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Compounds the 0.25% expense ratio against a peer over decades.
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Tool · Placement
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Top holdings
This fund is a grantor trust that holds allocated physical gold bullion — not a portfolio of securities — so a holdings table doesn't apply.
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