SOXX: iShares Semiconductor ETF

What does SOXX hold?#

This fund owns about 30 companies that design or make computer chips. Because it holds only one industry and few companies, its price can rise and fall sharply. A handful of companies make up a large part of the fund.

It tracks the NYSE Semiconductor Index. It had 30 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the SOXX expense ratio?#

SOXX charges 0.33% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.33% fee comes to about $33 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 SOXX done since 2001?#

From July 2001 to October 2026, SOXX returned about 13.6% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $248,283 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.

SOXX returns by year#

What was SOXX’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. SOXX’s worst fall was −70.2%, from August 2, 2001 to November 20, 2008. It got back to that high on February 12, 2014.

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 SOXX?#

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

How does SOXX compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for SOXX:

• SMH: VanEck Semiconductor ETF, 0.35% a year
• 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

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

Test SOXX 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 SOXX, 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 SOXX. 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.