Summary
iShares Global Comm Services ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by IShares. Positions inside: 85. The ten largest make up 71% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.37%
- Fund size
- $601.5M
- Positions
- 85
- Dividend yield
- 3.37%
- Running since
- 2001
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.37% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 6.9%.
- It has been running since 2001.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 71% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 99% of the fund is in one sector (Communication services).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 45% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -1.5%
- 3 months
- -0.2%
- This year
- -3.7%
- 1 year
- -6.4%
- 3 years
- +70%
- 5 years
- +35%
- 10 years
- +95%
- Avg. market cap
- $1.48T
- P/E
- 15.5x
- Forward P/E
- 14.5x
- P/S
- 2.7x
- P/B
- 3.1x
- P/FCF
- 18.5x
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.5x
- Dividend yield
- 1.35%
- ROIC
- 13.0%
- ROE
- 31.8%
- Gross margin
- 60.1%
- Operating margin
- 27.6%
- Net margin
- 29.8%
- Payout ratio
- 20.9%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 1.3x
- Beta
- 0.89
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 97% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 MEMeta META 21%
- 2 GOAlphabet GOOGL 13%
- 3 GOAlphabet GOOG 10%
- 4 DIDisney DIS 4.6%
- 5 07Tencent Holdings Limited 0700.HK 4.3%
- 6 VZVerizon VZ 4.0%
- 7 TAT&T T 4.0%
- 8 NFNetflix NFLX 4.0%
- 9 99SoftBank Group Corp. 9984.T 2.9%
- 10 DTDeutsche Telekom AG DTE.DE 2.4%
Positions in the fund: 85. The ten largest make up 71% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Communication services 99%
- Real estate 0.3%
- Consumer cyclical 0.2%
By country
- United States 71%
- Japan 9.2%
- China 6.0%
- Germany 2.5%
- Other countries 11%
By company size
- Mega cap 54%
- Large cap 45%
- Mid cap 0.4%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Communication services (99%). Largest country: United States (71%). Largest size group: Mega cap (54%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $37.00
- Over 20 years
- $1,809
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $37.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $1,809.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +6.9%
- Deepest drop
- -45%
- Yearly volatility
- 17%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 6.9%. Deepest drop in these years: 45% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 3.37%
- Payments a year
- 2
- Last payment
- $0.81
Over the last 12 months it paid $3.93 per share, which is 3.37% of today's price. The last payment was $0.81 on Jun 15, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Yes- Traded a day
- $7.02M
- Shares a day
- 60K
On an average day about $7.02M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 15.5
- Average Bulios Score
- 71 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 49%
- Fairly valued 5.7%
- Overvalued 45%
On average the companies inside trade for 15.5 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 49% of the rated weight comes out as undervalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 97% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
XW XWTS.DE Xtrackers MSCI World Communication Services UCITS ETF 1C | Ireland | 0.25% | $470.7M | +6.7% | Reinvests | 82% |
IU IU5C.DE iShares S&P 500 Communication Sector UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.15% | $1.27B | +5.5% | Reinvests | 70% |
XL XLC State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF | United States | 0.08% | $23.5B | -5.1% | Pays out | 70% |
ZP ZPDK.DE State Street SPDR S&P U.S. Communication Services Select Sector UCITS ETF (Acc) | Ireland | 0.15% | $338.4M | +6.2% | Reinvests | 69% |
FC FCOM Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF | United States | 0.08% | $1.78B | +0.5% | Pays out | 69% |
XU XUCM.DE Xtrackers MSCI USA Communication Services UCITS ETF 1D | Ireland | 0.12% | $1.10B | +3.2% | Pays out | 68% |
