IVV: iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

What does IVV hold?#

This fund holds stocks of the roughly 500 large US companies in the S&P 500 index. Its value goes up and down with the US stock market. One share gives you a small piece of all these companies at once.

It tracks the S&P 500 Index. It had 505 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the IVV expense ratio?#

IVV charges 0.03% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.03% fee comes to about $3 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 IVV done since 2000?#

From May 2000 to October 2026, IVV returned about 8.5% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $87,042 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.

IVV returns by year#

What was IVV’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. IVV’s worst fall was −55.3%, from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on August 16, 2012.

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 IVV?#

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

How does IVV compare with similar ETFs?#

Side-by-side pages measure both funds over the same dates:

• IVV vs VOO: two low-cost S&P 500 funds from iShares and Vanguard.

Funds that can stand in for IVV:

• SPYM: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF, 0.02% a year
• VOO: Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, 0.03% a year
• SPY: State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, 0.0945% a year
• ITOT: iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF, 0.03% a year

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

Test IVV 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 IVV, 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 IVV. 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.