IJT: iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF

What does IJT hold?#

This fund owns small US companies whose earnings and sales have been growing faster than average. These are called growth stocks. Small company prices can rise and fall a lot.

It tracks the S&P SmallCap 600 Growth Index. It had 372 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the IJT expense ratio?#

IJT charges 0.18% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.18% fee comes to about $18 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 IJT done since 2000?#

From July 2000 to October 2026, IJT returned about 9.2% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $100,284 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.

IJT returns by year#

What was IJT’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. IJT’s worst fall was −57.6%, from October 10, 2007 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on December 21, 2010.

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 IJT?#

One classic strategy holds IJT at least some of the time. Each is a set of written rules you can open, test and copy.

• Papa Bear Portfolio (Muscular Portfolios), by Brian Livingston, 2018

How does IJT compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for IJT:

• SCHA: Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF, 0.03% a year
• VB: Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF, 0.03% a year
• IJR: iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, 0.06% a year
• IWM: iShares Russell 2000 ETF, 0.19% a year

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

Test IJT 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 IJT, 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 IJT. 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 16, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.