IGV: iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF

What does IGV hold?#

This fund owns software companies in North America, plus some video game and online media companies. It sticks to a small corner of the market. Its price can rise and fall more than the overall stock market.

It tracks the S&P North American Expanded Technology Software Index. It had 106 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the IGV expense ratio?#

IGV charges 0.38% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.38% fee comes to about $38 a year.

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

How has IGV done since 2001?#

From July 2001 to October 2026, IGV returned about 9.8% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $107,082 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

IGV returns by year#

What was IGV’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. IGV’s worst fall was −62.2%, from July 17, 2001 to October 7, 2002. It got back to that high on October 1, 2007.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold IGV?#

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

How does IGV compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for IGV:

• XLK: State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF, 0.08% a year
• FTEC: Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF, 0.084% a year
• VGT: Vanguard Information Technology ETF, 0.09% a year
• IYW: iShares U.S. Technology ETF, 0.37% a year

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

Test IGV 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 IGV, 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 IGV. 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.

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.