iShares Digital Entertainment and Education UCITS ETF
On the 15th of August 2023, the index tracking investment strategy of this product changed from non-replicating to replicating
- NAV as of 30/Jul/2026USD 13.8252 WK: 10.11 - 14.60
- 1 Day NAV Change as of 30/Jul/2026USD -0.04(-0.28%)
- NAV Total Return as of 30/Jul/2026YTD: 22.42%
On the 15th of August 2023, the index tracking investment strategy of this product changed from non-replicating to replicating
Performance
- GROWTH OF HYPOTHETICAL USD 10,000
This chart shows the product’s performance as the percentage loss or gain per year over the last 3 years against its benchmark. It can help you to assess how the product has been managed in the past and compare it to its benchmark.
The figures shown relate to past performance. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Markets could develop very differently in the future. It can help you to assess how the fund has been managed in the past
Performance is shown on a Net Asset Value (NAV) basis, with gross income reinvested where applicable. Performance data is based on the net asset value (NAV) of the ETF which may not be the same as the market price of the ETF. Individual shareholders may realize returns that are different to the NAV performance.
The return of your investment may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations if your investment is made in a currency other than that used in the past performance calculation. Source: Blackrock
Key Risks
Shares in smaller companies typically trade in less volume and experience greater price variations than larger companies.
Investments in the technology securities are subject to absence or loss of intellectual property protections, rapid changes in technology, government regulation and competition.
Investment risk is concentrated in specific sectors, countries, currencies or companies. This means the Fund is more sensitive to any localised economic, market, political, sustainability-related or regulatory events.
The value of equities and equity-related securities can be affected by daily stock market movements. Other influential factors include political, economic news, company earnings and significant corporate events.
The benchmark index only excludes companies engaging in certain activities inconsistent with ESG criteria if such activities exceed the thresholds determined by the index provider. Such ESG screening may reduce the potential investment universe and this may adversely affect the value of the Fund’s investments compared to a fund without such screening.
Counterparty Risk: The insolvency of any institutions providing services such as safekeeping of assets or acting as counterparty to derivatives or other instruments, may expose the Share Class to financial loss.
Liquidity Risk: Lower liquidity means there are insufficient buyers or sellers to allow the Fund to sell or buy investments readily.
Key Facts
Net Assets as of 30/Jul/2026 | USD 65,134,183 |
|---|---|
Inception Date | 28/Jun/2022 |
Share Class Currency | USD |
Asset Class | Equity |
SFDR Classification | Article 8 |
Shares Outstanding as of 30/Jul/2026 | 4,711,500 |
ISIN | IE00023EZQ82 |
Securities Lending Return as of 31/Mar/2026 | 0.01% |
Product Structure | Physical |
Methodology | Replicated |
Issuing Company | iShares IV plc |
Administrator | State Street Fund Services (Ireland) Limited |
Fiscal Year End | 31 May |
SIPP Available | Yes |
UK Reporting Status | Yes |
Net Assets of Fund as of 30/Jul/2026 | USD 65,134,183 |
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Fund Launch Date | 28/Jun/2022 |
Base Currency | USD |
Benchmark Index | STOXX Global Digital Entertainment and Education Index (USD) |
SDR classification | ESG Overseas |
Total Expense Ratio | 0.40% |
Use of Income | Accumulating |
Domicile | Ireland |
Rebalance Frequency | Annual |
UCITS | Yes |
Fund Manager | BlackRock Asset Management Ireland Limited |
Custodian | State Street Custodial Services (Ireland) Limited |
Bloomberg Ticker | PLAY LN |
ISA Eligibility | Yes |
Portfolio Characteristics
Number of Holdings as of 30/Jul/2026 | 82 |
|---|---|
Benchmark Ticker | STXDEEV |
3y Beta as of 30/Jun/2026 | 0.998 |
P/B Ratio as of 30/Jul/2026 | 5.85 |
Benchmark Level as of 30/Jul/2026 | USD 8,085.05 |
|---|---|
Standard Deviation (3y) as of 30/Jun/2026 | 21.20% |
P/E Ratio as of 30/Jul/2026 | 28.89 |
Registered Locations
Austria
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Saudi Arabia
Slovak Republic
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Holdings
Exposure Breakdowns
Securities Lending
Securities lending is an established and well regulated activity in the investment management industry. It involves the transfer of securities (such as shares or bonds) from a Lender (in this case, the iShares fund) to a third-party (the Borrower). The Borrower will give the Lender collateral (the Borrower’s pledge) in the form of shares, bonds or cash, and will also pay the Lender a fee. This fee provides additional income for the fund and thus can help to reduce the total cost of ownership of an ETF.
At BlackRock, securities lending is a core investment management function with dedicated trading, research and technology capabilities. The lending programme is designed to deliver superior absolute returns to clients, whilst maintaining a low risk profile. Funds participating in securities lending retain 62.5% of the income, while BlackRock receives 37.5% of the income and covers all the operational costs resulting from securities lending transactions.
| From 31-Mar-2021 To 31-Mar-2022 | From 31-Mar-2022 To 31-Mar-2023 | From 31-Mar-2023 To 31-Mar-2024 | From 31-Mar-2024 To 31-Mar-2025 | From 31-Mar-2025 To 31-Mar-2026 | |
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| Securities Lending Return (%) | 0.01 | 0.01 | |||
| Average on-loan (% of AUM) | 4.80 | 6.82 | |||
| Maximum on-loan (% of AUM) | 9.48 | 13.56 | |||
| Collateralisation (% of Loan) | 110.03 | 110.59 |
The information in the Lending Summary table will not be displayed for the funds that have participated in securities lending for less than 12 months. The figures shown relate to past performance. Past performance is not a reliable indication of current or future results.
BlackRock’s policy is to disclose performance information quarterly subject to a one-month delay. This means that returns from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019 can be publicly disclosed from 01/02/2020.
Maximum on-loan figure may increase or decrease over time.
With securities lending there is a risk of loss should the borrower default before the securities are returned, and due to market movements, the value of collateral held has fallen and/or the value of the securities on loan has risen.
Listings
| Bolsa Mexicana De Valores | PLAY | MXN | 22/Sept/2022 | BQVW954 | PLAYN MM | - |
| Euronext Amsterdam | PLAY | USD | 30/Jun/2022 | BPLGP84 | PLAY NA | PLAYI.AS |
| London Stock Exchange | PLAY | GBP | 12/Jan/2024 | BRF6WG1 | PLAY LN | ISPLAY.L |
| Nyse Euronext - Euronext Paris | DGGE | EUR | 07/Jul/2022 | BP9M3Q8 | - | DGGE.PA |
| SIX Swiss Exchange | PLAY | USD | 14/Jul/2022 | BPBQSZ2 | - | PLAYE.S |
| Xetra | CBUN | EUR | 07/Jul/2022 | BP9M3R9 | - | CBUN.DE |
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Literature
- iShares IV plc - Prospectus (English)PDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV plc - Prospectus - Country Supplement (English - United Kingdom)PDF, opens in a new tab
- FactsheetPDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares Digital Entertainment and Education UCITS ETF USD (Acc) - KIIDPDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV plc - Annual Report (English)PDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV PLC - Annual Financial Statements 2025PDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV - Reportable Income 2025
- iShares IV - Reportable Income 2024
- iShares IV plc - Annual Report (English)PDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV PLC - Annual Financial Statements 2024PDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV - Reportable Income 2023
- iShares IV plc - Annual Report (English)PDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV - Reportable Income 2022
- iShares IV plc - Annual Report (English)PDF, opens in a new tab
- iShares IV - Reportable Income 2021
- iShares IV Reportable Income 2019
- iShares IV - Reportable Income 2020 (English)
- iShares IV PLC - Reportable Income - Tax InformationPDF, opens in a new tab
- Sustainability related disclosure - ISPLAYTTL (en)PDF, opens in a new tab
If the Fund invests in any underlying fund, certain portfolio information, including sustainability characteristics and business-involvement metrics, provided for the Fund may include information (on a look-through basis) of such underlying fund, to the extent available.
BlackRock Portfolio Managers have access to research, data, tools, and analytics to integrate ESG insights into their investment process. Aladdin is the operating system that connects the data, people and technology necessary to manage portfolios in real time, as well as the engine behind BlackRock’s ESG analytics and reporting capabilities. BlackRock’s Portfolio Managers use Aladdin to make investment decisions, monitor portfolios and to access material ESG insights that can inform the investment process to attain ESG characteristics of the fund. ESG datasets are sourced from external third-party data providers, including but not limited to MSCI and Sustainalytics. These datasets include headline ESG scores, carbon data, business involvement metrics or controversies and have been incorporated into Aladdin tools that are available to Portfolio Managers. Such tools support the full investment process, from research, to portfolio construction and modeling, to reporting. In addition to having access to these datasets in Aladdin, where applicable, Portfolio Managers could also supplement these sources with sell side research, non-government organization reports, company reported data, fundamental research insights prepared by BlackRock equity and credit investment research teams. In order to offer scalable solutions to investors across different asset classes and investment styles, BlackRock has developed a set of exclusionary screens, “BlackRock EMEA Baseline Screens”, that seeks to address a majority of our clients’ requests for exclusions. As an example, these exclusionary screens eliminate holdings with more than de minimis exposure to certain sectors/industries including but not limited to controversial weapons, nuclear weapons, fossil fuels, civilian firearms, tobacco, and UN Global Compact violators. BlackRock EMEA Baseline Screens are applied on all new active funds in Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”), on a comply or explain basis by our portfolio management teams within our product governance structure. For all new sustainable index strategies in EMEA, BlackRock works with the index provider to reflect the same screens in the custom index. Qualified investors with separate accounts can have exclusionary screens set with specific criteria as determined by the investor. The definition of the baseline screens and its adoption into sustainable screened funds is governed by the Sustainable Product Council (“SPC”). The current default ESG data provider for these Baseline Screens is MSCI but investment teams can choose to use Sustainalytics or other custom data sources as required. For further SFDR related fund/sub-fund level disclosures, please refer to the fund/ sub-fund specific Investment Objective and Policy section(s) and benchmark information in the prospectus that is available on the website.
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This is Marketing Material. iShares plc, iShares II plc, iShares III plc, iShares IV plc, iShares V plc, iShares VI plc and iShares VII plc (together 'the Companies') are open-ended investment companies with variable capital having segregated liability between their funds organised under the laws of Ireland and authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland. The Prospectus (Available in French, German, Polish and English Languages) Key Investor Information document (UK only), PRIIPs KID and further information about the Fund and the Share Class, such as details of the key underlying investments of the Share Class and share prices, is available on the iShares website at www.ishares.com or by calling +44 (0)845 357 7000 or from your broker or financial adviser. The indicative intra-day net asset value of the Share Class is available at http://deutsche-boerse.com and/or http://www.reuters.com. A UCITS ETF’s units / shares that have been acquired on the secondary market cannot usually be sold directly back to the UCITS ETF itself. Investors who are not Authorised Participants must buy and sell shares on a secondary market with the assistance of an intermediary (e.g. a stockbroker) and may incur fees and additional taxes in doing so. In addition, as the market price at which the Shares are traded on the secondary market may differ from the Net Asset Value per Share, investors may pay more than the then current Net Asset Value per Share when buying shares and may receive less than the current Net Asset Value per Share when selling them.
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