iShares Trust iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Snapshot*
Top 10 Holdings
What is IGSB?
The iShares Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade corporate bonds with remaining maturities between one and five years.
IGSBPerformance Measures**
for the time period Jan 11, 2007 to Dec 4, 2025
1M Trailing Return: 0.5%
The percent change in the value over the most recent 1-month period.
3M Trailing Return: 1.1%
The percent change in the value over the most recent 3-month period.
Max Drawdown: -13.4%
The greatest percent loss from peak to trough in value over the time period.
Standard Deviation: 4.1%
The typical amount that daily returns vary from the mean of the returns over the time period, standardized to a period of a year.
Sharpe Ratio: 0.71
The annualized arithmetic mean of the daily returns divided by the annualized standard deviation of the daily returns for the selected time period.
Calmar Ratio: 0.22
The annualized return divided by the max drawdown for the selected time period.
ETFs related toIGSB
ETFs correlated to IGSB include VCSH, SLQD, SUSB
What is ETF correlation?
Correlation is a measure of the strength of the relationship between two ETFs. It quantifies the degree to which prices of the two ETFs typically move together.
Here, correlation is measured over the past year with the Pearson correlation coefficient (Pearon’s r), which ranges from -1 to 1.
Using ETF correlations in portfolio and strategy construction
ETF correlations can help you create investing strategies and portfolios. Use them to:
- •Build a diversified portfolio from uncorrelated or inversely correlated ETFs with the aim of minimizing portfolio risk.
- •Compare correlated or related ETFs to find one with a lower expense ratio or higher trading volume.
- •Create an investing strategy that hedges an ETF with an uncorrelated or inversely correlated ETF.
Trading Strategies
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OOS Cumulative Return
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