iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF (IXUS)

How has IXUS done since 2012?#

From October 2012 to October 2026, IXUS returned about 7.7% a year. The S&P 500 returned about 14.8% a year over the same dates. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $28,142 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

IXUS returns by month and year#

IXUS rose in 100 of its 169 months (59%). Its best month was November 2022, at 12.9%. Its worst was March 2020, at −15.7%.

How risky is IXUS compared with the S&P 500?#

Measured from October 2021 to October 2026, on the days both traded.

• Beta 0.78. When the S&P 500 moved 1% in a day, IXUS tended to move about 0.78%.
• Correlation 0.81. IXUS mostly moved with the S&P 500.
• Up and down months. In months the S&P 500 rose, IXUS rose 78% as much on average. In months it fell, IXUS fell 86% as much.

Is IXUS above its 200-day average?#

IXUS closed 1.0% above its 200-day average on October 16, 2026. A rule that holds IXUS only above that average would hold it today.

What was IXUS’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. IXUS’s worst fall was −36.2%, from January 26, 2018 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on November 16, 2020. On October 16, 2026 it was 5.4% below its highest close.

What does IXUS hold?#

This fund owns thousands of companies outside the US, both big and small. It holds stocks from rich countries and from countries whose economies are still growing. Changes in foreign currency values can also move what the fund is worth in US dollars.

It tracks the MSCI ACWI ex USA IMI Index (Net). It had 4,584 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the IXUS expense ratio?#

IXUS charges 0.07% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.07% fee comes to about $7 a year. Of the 162 ETFs on Tactfolio, 69% charge more.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold IXUS?#

No classic strategy holds IXUS yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does IXUS compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for IXUS:

• VEU: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, 0.04% a year
• VXUS: Vanguard Total International Stock ETF, 0.05% a year
• SCHF: Schwab International Equity ETF, 0.03% a year
• VEA: Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF, 0.03% a year

See all 8 IXUS alternatives, compared on the same dates as IXUS.

Test IXUS in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add IXUS, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for IXUS and SPY. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Beta and correlation compare daily returns with the S&P 500 over the same dates.

Fund facts come from iShares (BlackRock). We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.