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IJR · Analysis updated Nov 10, 2026, 6:00 PM ET
Why is iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (IJR) stock moving?
No news items or SEC filings were found for IJR in the 14 to 45 days before the current date, so this view rests only on the 30-day price and volume data. Over Oct 22 to Nov 10, the ETF rose from a $138.65 close to $141.19, about 1.8%, and reached a 30-day high of $144.22 on Nov 4. The main event in the data is the Nov 5 selloff: the ETF closed at $137.49, down about 3.8% from $142.93, on 6.23M shares and 96,422 trades, well above the usual 40,000 to 60,000 trades per day. Price held near $136.46 to $137.64 on Nov 6, then recovered to $141.72 on Nov 9 and closed at $141.19 on Nov 10 on lower volume of about 2.9M to 3.0M shares. The recovery is encouraging, but with no fundamental, macro or company-level news to explain the Nov 5 move, the evidence is thin and the direction is unclear.
About iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR is BlackRock's iShares fund that tracks the S&P SmallCap 600, a basket of about 600+ smaller US companies, and holds roughly $105 billion in assets. Unlike the Russell 2000, the index only adds a company after it has been profitable for four straight quarters. That tends to tilt the fund toward somewhat higher-quality small companies.
How the fund works
It's a passive fund that holds the stocks in the S&P SmallCap 600, weighted by market value (bigger companies get a bigger slice), and rebalances as the index changes. It doesn't use leverage. The annual fee is about 0.06%, and it pays a dividend every quarter, recently yielding about 1.2%. Holdings are widely spread out: the top 10 make up only about 6% of assets. As a small-cap fund, its price usually swings more than large-cap funds, and many of its companies are more sensitive to borrowing costs and the US economy.
What usually moves IJR
- Interest rate expectations and Fed policy
- US economic growth and recession risk
- Credit conditions and borrowing costs for smaller firms
- Investors moving money between small caps and large-cap tech
- Domestic consumer and industrial demand