iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Find Ratings Reports- Last Ratings Update:02/29/2024
- Price as of 02/29/2024 :$64.11
- Net Assets:$0 Million
- NAV:$65.27
- Premium-1.78%
- Peer Rank:309 of 330
- Investment Rating:E
- Performance:D-
- RiskC-
We rate iShares MSCI South Korea at E. Negative factors that influence this rating include a well below average total return. The fund invests approximately 100% of its assets in stocks and may be considered for investors seeking a Non-US Equity strategy.
Total return ranks well below peers over the last three years. The iShares MSCI South Korea has returned an annual rate of 6.22% since inception. More recently, the fund has generated a total return of 3.15% in the last five years, -8.20% in the last three years, and 9.88% in the last year. How does that compare to other equity funds? In the last five years, it has outperformed 37% of them. It has also outpaced 9% of its competitors on a three year basis and 49% of them over the last year for the period ending 2/29/2024. On a year to date basis, EWY has returned -0.92%.
Downside risk has been above average. EWY has a draw down risk of -49.17%, which is the largest price decline experienced over the last three years. This fund has a three year standard deviation of 27.4%. This fund has experienced excessive volatility in its monthly performance over the last 36 months.
High expense ratio hinders performance. As EWY is an exchange traded fund, it has no front end or back end load.
The iShares MSCI South Korea is managed by Gregory R Savage at BlackRock Fund Advisors. This fund is one of 353 BlackRock Fund Advisors exchange-traded funds launched since 3/12/1996 that we track.