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IWF −1.12% on Nov 13 · Analysis updated Nov 13, 2026, 6:30 PM ET
Why is iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF) stock down?
IWF closed at 114.89 on Nov 13, down 1.1% from 116.19 on Nov 12 on 5.9M shares, and remains about 6.6% below the Oct 28 close of 123.01. The stock fell sharply from Oct 28 to Nov 5, with the heaviest volume on Oct 30 (10.3M) and Nov 5 (10.8M), and closed at 110.36 on Nov 5. It then rebounded to 115.01 on Nov 9 on 13.4M shares and reached 116.62 on Nov 11, but the Nov 13 session pulled back toward the middle of its range (113.46 to 116.63). The rebound has stalled below the early-November levels of roughly 117 to 118. The only news in the window is a retrospective Benzinga performance piece that cites long-run outperformance and gives no forward catalyst, and the cause of the early-November sell-off is still not visible in the supplied data. The evidence is therefore mixed, with price structure pointing neither clearly up nor down over the coming week.
News behind the analysis
- If You Invested $100 In iShares Russell 1000 Growth Fund Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have This Much TodayA Benzinga retrospective notes the fund outperformed the market by 2.4% annualized over 20 years, with an average annual return of 11.14%. It is backward-looking and cites no new fund-specific catalyst.
About iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
IWF is BlackRock's iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF. It launched in 2000 and holds roughly $120 billion, making it one of the oldest and largest US growth-stock funds. It owns the faster-growing half of the Russell 1000 index (about 375 holdings), and a handful of mega-cap tech names make up a large share of the fund.
How the fund works
It tracks the Russell 1000 Growth Index. That index picks the Russell 1000 companies with higher forecast medium-term growth, higher past sales growth and higher price-to-book ratios, then weights them by market value. The fund uses representative sampling, so it may not own every stock in the index. There's no leverage. The expense ratio is about 0.18% a year, and the fund pays a small dividend each quarter (yield around 0.35%). The biggest risk is concentration: top holdings like Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Broadcom and Meta take up a large share of the fund, so it leans heavily on the technology sector.
What usually moves IWF
- Mega-cap tech earnings (Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft)
- AI and data-center spending
- Interest rates and bond yields
- Growth vs. value style rotation
- Annual Russell index reconstitution