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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) iShares® Factors US Blend Style ETF
June 30, 2021 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

 

Security  Shares   Value 
         
Common Stocks          
           
Advertising — 0.0%          
Omnicom Group Inc.   16   $1,280 
           
Aerospace & Defense — 1.1%          
BWX Technologies Inc.   70    4,068 
Lockheed Martin Corp.   96    36,322 
Northrop Grumman Corp.   74    26,894 
         67,284 
Agricultural & Farm Machinery — 0.1%          
AGCO Corp.   29    3,781 
Toro Co. (The)   12    1,319 
         5,100 
Air Freight & Logistics — 1.1%          
Expeditors International of Washington Inc.   235    29,751 
FedEx Corp.   8    2,387 
United Parcel Service Inc., Class B   183    38,058 
         70,196 
Alternative Carriers — 0.3%          
Lumen Technologies Inc.   1,208    16,417 
           
Apparel Retail — 0.1%          
L Brands Inc.   73    5,260 
           
Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods — 0.5%    
Carter’s Inc.   26    2,682 
Columbia Sportswear Co.   69    6,787 
Lululemon Athletica Inc.(a)   25    9,124 
Ralph Lauren Corp.   87    10,250 
         28,843 
Application Software — 5.7%          
Adobe Inc.(a)   46    26,939 
Anaplan Inc.(a)   77    4,104 
Aspen Technology Inc.(a)   300    41,262 
Atlassian Corp. PLC, Class A(a)   131    33,649 
Avalara Inc.(a)   27    4,369 
Cadence Design Systems Inc.(a)   242    33,110 
Citrix Systems Inc.   343    40,224 
Dropbox Inc., Class A(a)   412    12,488 
Dynatrace Inc.(a)   171    9,990 
Fair Isaac Corp.(a)   73    36,696 
HubSpot Inc.(a)   36    20,978 
Intuit Inc.   47    23,038 
Manhattan Associates Inc.(a)   170    24,623 
Nutanix Inc., Class A(a)   84    3,210 
Slack Technologies Inc., Class A(a)   185    8,195 
Smartsheet Inc., Class A(a)   78    5,641 
Synopsys Inc.(a)   20    5,516 
Zoom Video Communications Inc., Class A(a)   46    17,803 
         351,835 
Asset Management & Custody Banks — 1.0%    
Ameriprise Financial Inc.   138    34,345 
Franklin Resources Inc.   44    1,408 
State Street Corp.   312    25,671 
         61,424 
Automobile Manufacturers — 0.7%          
Tesla Inc.(a)   64    43,501 
           
Automotive Retail — 0.6%          
AutoNation Inc.(a)   116    10,998 
Security  Shares   Value 
         
Automotive Retail (continued)          
AutoZone Inc.(a)   10   $14,922 
O’Reilly Automotive Inc.(a)   18    10,192 
         36,112 
Biotechnology — 3.3%          
AbbVie Inc.   768    86,508 
Acceleron Pharma Inc.(a)   100    12,549 
Amgen Inc.   187    45,581 
Biogen Inc.(a)   42    14,543 
Gilead Sciences Inc.   77    5,302 
Moderna Inc.(a)   93    21,853 
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.(a)   92    18,550 
         204,886 
Building Products — 1.7%          
AZEK Co. Inc. (The)(a)   66    2,802 
Carrier Global Corp.   389    18,905 
Lennox International Inc.   78    27,363 
Masco Corp.   252    14,845 
Trane Technologies PLC   3    553 
Trex Co. Inc.(a)   363    37,102 
         101,570 
Cable & Satellite — 0.2%          
Charter Communications Inc., Class A(a)   9    6,493 
Comcast Corp., Class A   17    969 
Sirius XM Holdings Inc.   371    2,427 
         9,889 
Communications Equipment — 1.8%          
Arista Networks Inc.(a)   10    3,623 
Ciena Corp.(a)   207    11,776 
Cisco Systems Inc.   471    24,963 
Lumentum Holdings Inc.(a)   175    14,355 
Motorola Solutions Inc.   156    33,829 
Ubiquiti Inc.   69    21,541 
         110,087 
Computer & Electronics Retail — 0.5%          
Best Buy Co. Inc.   289    33,229 
           
Construction Machinery & Heavy Trucks — 0.5%    
Allison Transmission Holdings Inc.   733    29,129 
           
Consumer Finance — 2.4%          
Ally Financial Inc.   882    43,959 
American Express Co.   5    826 
Capital One Financial Corp.   138    21,347 
Discover Financial Services   32    3,785 
OneMain Holdings Inc.   700    41,937 
Synchrony Financial   518    25,134 
Upstart Holdings Inc.(a)   69    8,618 
         145,606 
Data Processing & Outsourced Services — 1.7%    
Concentrix Corp.(a)   127    20,422 
Mastercard Inc., Class A   86    31,398 
Paychex Inc.   60    6,438 
PayPal Holdings Inc.(a)   6    1,749 
StoneCo Ltd., Class A(a)   340    22,800 
Visa Inc., Class A   48    11,223 
Western Union Co. (The)   440    10,107 
         104,137 
Department Stores — 0.0%          
Kohl’s Corp.   11    606 

 

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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) iShares® Factors US Blend Style ETF
June 30, 2021 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

 

Security  Shares   Value 
         
Department Stores (continued)          
Nordstrom Inc.(a)   59   $2,158 
         2,764 
Distributors — 0.4%          
Pool Corp.   50    22,933 
           
Diversified Chemicals — 0.0%          
Chemours Co. (The)   16    557 
           
Diversified REITs — 0.3%          
VEREIT Inc.   328    15,065 
           
Diversified Support Services — 0.1%          
Cintas Corp.   7    2,674 
IAA Inc.(a)(b)   6    327 
         3,001 
Electric Utilities — 0.4%          
Entergy Corp.   100    9,970 
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.   8    338 
NRG Energy Inc.   367    14,790 
         25,098 
Electrical Components & Equipment — 0.4%          
nVent Electric PLC   465    14,527 
Rockwell Automation Inc.   2    572 
Shoals Technologies Group Inc., Class A(a)   217    7,703 
         22,802 
Electronic Equipment & Instruments — 0.5%          
Vontier Corp.   527    17,169 
Zebra Technologies Corp., Class A(a)   30    15,885 
         33,054 
Electronic Manufacturing Services — 0.2%          
Jabil Inc.   205    11,915 
           
Environmental & Facilities Services — 0.0%          
Republic Services Inc.   11    1,210 
Waste Management Inc.   4    561 
         1,771 
Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals — 0.6%          
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. (The)   180    34,546 
           
Financial Exchanges & Data — 1.5%          
MSCI Inc.   110    58,639 
S&P Global Inc.   84    34,478 
         93,117 
Food Retail — 2.3%          
Albertsons Companies Inc., Class A(b)   4,029    79,210 
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.(a)(b)   372    12,893 
Kroger Co. (The)   1,228    47,045 
         139,148 
Footwear — 0.0%          
Nike Inc., Class B   4    618 
           
General Merchandise Stores — 1.3%          
Dollar General Corp.   69    14,931 
Target Corp.   276    66,720 
         81,651 
Health Care Distributors — 0.3%          
Cardinal Health Inc.   143    8,164 
McKesson Corp.   44    8,414 
         16,578 
Security  Shares   Value 
         
Health Care Equipment — 0.4%          
Abbott Laboratories   107   $12,404 
Hologic Inc.(a)   13    867 
IDEXX Laboratories Inc.(a)   21    13,263 
         26,534 
Health Care Facilities — 0.5%          
HCA Healthcare Inc.   148    30,598 
           
Health Care Services — 2.1%          
Amedisys Inc.(a)   52    12,736 
Chemed Corp.   53    25,149 
CVS Health Corp.   314    26,200 
DaVita Inc.(a)   224    26,976 
Signify Health Inc., Class A(a)   1,178    35,847 
         126,908 
Health Care Supplies — 0.2%          
Quidel Corp.(a)   75    9,609 
           
Health Care Technology — 0.2%          
Veeva Systems Inc., Class A(a)   41    12,749 
           
Home Furnishings — 0.1%          
Tempur Sealy International Inc.   203    7,956 
           
Home Improvement Retail — 1.5%          
Home Depot Inc. (The)   213    67,924 
Lowe’s Companies Inc.   126    24,440 
         92,364 
Homebuilding — 0.2%          
PulteGroup Inc.   213    11,623 
           
Homefurnishing Retail — 0.4%          
Williams-Sonoma Inc.   160    25,544 
           
Household Products — 1.5%          
Clorox Co. (The)   48    8,636 
Colgate-Palmolive Co.   25    2,034 
Kimberly-Clark Corp.   279    37,324 
Procter & Gamble Co. (The)   341    46,011 
         94,005 
Housewares & Specialties — 0.0%          
Newell Brands Inc.   95    2,610 
           
Human Resource & Employment Services — 0.2%          
ManpowerGroup Inc.   16    1,902 
Robert Half International Inc.   109    9,698 
         11,600 
Hypermarkets & Super Centers — 1.6%          
Costco Wholesale Corp.   108    42,732 
Walmart Inc.   400    56,408 
         99,140 
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders — 0.6%          
Vistra Corp.   2,010    37,286 
           
Industrial Machinery — 2.0%          
Dover Corp.   73    10,994 
Graco Inc.   7    530 
Otis Worldwide Corp.   1,371    112,106 
         123,630 
Integrated Telecommunication Services — 0.8%          
Verizon Communications Inc.   863    48,354 

 

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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) iShares® Factors US Blend Style ETF
June 30, 2021 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

 

Security  Shares   Value 
         
Interactive Home Entertainment — 2.0%          
Activision Blizzard Inc.   153   $14,602 
Electronic Arts Inc.   105    15,102 
Playtika Holding Corp.(a)   3,084    73,523 
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.(a)   126    22,305 
         125,532 
Interactive Media & Services — 2.5%          
Alphabet Inc., Class A(a)   14    34,185 
Alphabet Inc., Class C, NVS(a)   13    32,582 
Facebook Inc., Class A(a)   197    68,499 
Match Group Inc.(a)   102    16,448 
         151,714 
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail — 4.4%          
Amazon.com Inc.(a)   59    202,969 
eBay Inc.   494    34,684 
Qurate Retail Inc.   1,088    14,242 
Wayfair Inc., Class A(a)(b)   48    15,154 
         267,049 
Internet Services & Infrastructure — 1.1%          
Akamai Technologies Inc.(a)   47    5,480 
GoDaddy Inc., Class A(a)   67    5,826 
MongoDB Inc.(a)   3    1,085 
Okta Inc.(a)   29    7,096 
VeriSign Inc.(a)   201    45,766 
         65,253 
Investment Banking & Brokerage — 4.6%          
Evercore Inc., Class A   640    90,093 
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (The)   40    15,181 
Jefferies Financial Group Inc.   2,529    86,492 
Lazard Ltd., Class A   1,057    47,830 
LPL Financial Holdings Inc.   38    5,129 
Morgan Stanley   251    23,014 
Raymond James Financial Inc.   48    6,235 
Virtu Financial Inc., Class A   359    9,919 
         283,893 
Leisure Products — 0.1%          
Peloton Interactive Inc., Class A(a)   31    3,845 
Polaris Inc.   10    1,369 
         5,214 
Life & Health Insurance — 1.7%          
Aflac Inc.   427    22,914 
Athene Holding Ltd., Class A(a)   132    8,910 
Brighthouse Financial Inc.(a)   477    21,723 
Primerica Inc.   214    32,772 
Principal Financial Group Inc.   217    13,712 
Unum Group   221    6,276 
         106,307 
Life Sciences Tools & Services — 0.6%          
Mettler-Toledo International Inc.(a)   10    13,853 
Sotera Health Co.(a)   356    8,626 
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.   32    16,143 
         38,622 
Managed Health Care — 0.2%          
Molina Healthcare Inc.(a)   41    10,375 
           
Metal & Glass Containers — 0.1%          
Silgan Holdings Inc.   215    8,923 
           
Multi-line Insurance — 0.4%          
American Financial Group Inc./OH   151    18,833 
Security  Shares   Value 
         
Multi-line Insurance (continued)          
Assurant Inc.   5   $781 
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (The)   112    6,940 
         26,554 
Multi-Utilities — 0.0%          
Ameren Corp.   4    320 
           
Office REITs — 0.3%          
SL Green Realty Corp.   240    19,200 
           
Oil & Gas Exploration & Production — 0.5%          
APA Corp.   65    1,406 
Devon Energy Corp.   793    23,148 
Marathon Oil Corp.   426    5,802 
         30,356 
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation — 0.3%          
Antero Midstream Corp.   1,770    18,390 
           
Other Diversified Financial Services — 0.4%          
Equitable Holdings Inc.   718    21,863 
           
Packaged Foods & Meats — 0.7%          
Campbell Soup Co.   227    10,349 
Flowers Foods Inc.   895    21,659 
General Mills Inc.   31    1,889 
Hershey Co. (The)   37    6,444 
JM Smucker Co. (The)   28    3,628 
         43,969 
Paper Packaging — 1.0%          
Amcor PLC   3,977    45,577 
Avery Dennison Corp.   18    3,784 
Graphic Packaging Holding Co.   59    1,070 
Sealed Air Corp.   224    13,272 
         63,703 
Personal Products — 0.7%          
Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (The), Class A   55    17,495 
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd.(a)   521    27,472 
         44,967 
Pharmaceuticals — 4.8%          
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.   780    52,120 
Eli Lilly & Co.   244    56,003 
Johnson & Johnson   379    62,436 
Merck & Co. Inc.   1,233    95,890 
Organon & Co.(a)   125    3,782 
Pfizer Inc.   410    16,056 
Royalty Pharma PLC, Class A   203    8,321 
Zoetis Inc.   2    373 
         294,981 
Property & Casualty Insurance — 1.5%          
Allstate Corp. (The)   336    43,828 
Assured Guaranty Ltd.   79    3,751 
First American Financial Corp.   226    14,091 
Hanover Insurance Group Inc. (The)   37    5,019 
Mercury General Corp.   58    3,767 
White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd.   17    19,516 
         89,972 
Publishing — 0.0%          
News Corp., Class B   90    2,192 
           
Regional Banks — 0.5%          
Popular Inc.   414    31,071 

 

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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) iShares® Factors US Blend Style ETF
June 30, 2021 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

 

Security  Shares   Value 
         
Research & Consulting Services — 2.4%          
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.   959   $81,688 
CACI International Inc., Class A(a)   46    11,735 
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc.(a)   695    14,852 
FTI Consulting Inc.(a)   242    33,060 
Leidos Holdings Inc.   62    6,268 
         147,603 
Restaurants — 1.2%          
Domino’s Pizza Inc.   82    38,252 
McDonald’s Corp.   10    2,310 
Starbucks Corp.   101    11,293 
Yum! Brands Inc.   209    24,041 
         75,896 
Retail REITs — 0.5%          
Brixmor Property Group Inc.   252    5,768 
Brookfield Property REIT Inc., Class A   1,262    23,839 
         29,607 
Semiconductor Equipment — 1.5%          
Applied Materials Inc.   121    17,230 
Enphase Energy Inc.(a)   53    9,732 
KLA Corp.   50    16,211 
Lam Research Corp.   30    19,521 
Teradyne Inc.   215    28,802 
         91,496 
Semiconductors — 3.6%          
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(a)   42    3,945 
Broadcom Inc.   34    16,213 
Cirrus Logic Inc.(a)   168    14,300 
Intel Corp.   469    26,330 
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.   17    1,791 
NVIDIA Corp.   49    39,205 
Qorvo Inc.(a)   147    28,760 
QUALCOMM Inc.   310    44,308 
Texas Instruments Inc.   233    44,806 
         219,658 
Specialized Consumer Services — 0.1%          
H&R Block Inc.   261    6,128 
           
Specialty Stores — 0.8%          
Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc.   172    17,233 
Leslie’s Inc.(a)   1,051    28,892 
Tractor Supply Co.   16    2,977 
         49,102 
Steel — 0.6%          
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.   237    35,763 
           
Systems Software — 8.1%          
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc., Class A(a)   195    49,005 
FireEye Inc.(a)   43    869 
Fortinet Inc.(a)   175    41,683 
McAfee Corp., Class A   748    20,959 
Security  Shares   Value 
         
Systems Software (continued)          
Microsoft Corp.   1,272   $344,585 
Oracle Corp.   339    26,388 
Zscaler Inc.(a)   76    16,421 
        499,910 
Technology Distributors — 0.2%          
Avnet Inc.   28    1,123 
CDW Corp./DE   51    8,907 
SYNNEX Corp.   16    1,948 
        11,978 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals — 7.3%          
Apple Inc.   2,572    352,261 
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.   2,430    35,429 
HP Inc.   701    21,163 
NetApp Inc.   172    14,073 
Xerox Holdings Corp.   938    22,034 
        444,960 
Tobacco — 0.9%          
Altria Group Inc.   184    8,773 
Philip Morris International Inc.   453    44,897 
        53,670 
Trading Companies & Distributors — 0.2%          
WW Grainger Inc.   26    11,388 
           
Trucking — 0.0%          
Schneider National Inc., Class B   62    1,350 
           
Total Common Stocks — 99.7%          
(Cost: $4,601,727)       6,119,842 
           
Short-Term Investments          
           
Money Market Funds — 0.7%          
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency Shares, 0.07%(c)(d)(e)   32,563    32,582 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares, 0.00%(c)(d)   10,000    10,000 
         42,582 
Total Short -Term Investments — 0.7%          
(Cost: $42,580)        42,582 
           
Total Investments in Securities — 100.4%          
(Cost: $4,644,307)        6,162,424 
           
Other Assets, Less Liabilities — (0.4)%        (24,196)
           
Net Assets — 100.0%       $6,138,228 

 

(a)Non-income producing security.

(b)All or a portion of this security is on loan.
(c)Affiliate of the Fund.

(d)Annualized 7-day yield as of period-end.

(e)All or a portion of this security was purchased with cash collateral received from loaned securities.

 

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June 30, 2021

 

Affiliates

 

Investments in issuers considered to be affiliate(s) of the Fund during the period ended June 30, 2021 for purposes of Section 2(a)(3) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, were as follows:

 

Affiliated Issuer  Value at
03/31/21
   Purchases
at Cost
   Proceeds
from Sales
   Net Realized
Gain (Loss)
   Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
   Value at
06/30/21
   Shares
Held at
06/30/21
   Income   Capital
Gain
Distributions
from
Underlying
Funds
 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency Shares  $162,453   $   $(129,878)(a)  $5   $2   $32,582    32,563   $625(b)  $ 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares       10,000(a)               10,000    10,000         
                  $5   $2   $42,582        $625   $ 

 

(a)Represents net amount purchased (sold).

(b)All or a portion represents securities lending income earned from the reinvestment of cash collateral from loaned securities, net of fees and collateral investment expenses, and other payments to and from borrowers of securities.

 

OTC Total Return Swaps

 

Reference Entity  Payment
Frequency
  Counterparty(a)  Termination
Date
  Net Notional   Accrued
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
  Net Value of
Reference
Entity
   Gross
Notional
Amount
Net Asset
Percentage
 
Equity Securities Long  Monthly  Goldman Sachs & Co.(b)  02/27/23  $4,808   $(279)(c) $4,497    0.1%
   Monthly  JPMorgan Securities PLC(d)  02/08/23   4,823    (267)(e)  4,533    0.1 
                 $(546) $9,030      

 

(a)The Fund receives the total return on a portfolio of long positions underlying the total return swap. The Fund pays the total return on a portfolio of short positions underlying the total return swap. In addition, the Fund pays or receives a variable rate of interest, based on a specified benchmark. The benchmark and spread are determined based upon the country and/or currency of the individual underlying positions.

(c)Amount includes $32 of net dividends and financing fees.

(e)Amount includes $23 of net dividends, payable for referenced securities purchased and financing fees.

The following are the specified benchmarks (plus or minus a range) used in determining the variable rate of interest:

  (b) (d)
Range: 65 basis points 65 basis points
Benchmarks: USD - 1M US Dollar LIBOR BBA USD - 1M US Dollar LIBOR BBA

 

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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) iShares® Factors US Blend Style ETF
June 30, 2021

 

The following table represents the individual long positions and related values of the equity securities underlying the total return swap with Goldman Sachs & Co. as of June 30, 2021 expiration 2/27/2023.

 

   Shares   Value   % of
Basket
Value
 
             
Reference Entity — Long               
                
Insurance               
Fidelity National Financial Inc.   92   $3,998    88.9%
First American Financial Corp.   8    499    11.1 
                
Net Value of Reference Entity — Goldman Sachs & Co.      $4,497      

The following table represents the individual long positions and related values of the equity securities underlying the total return swap with JPMorgan Securities PLC as of June 30, 2021 expiration 2/8/2023.

 

   Shares   Value   % of
Basket
Value
 
             
Reference Entity — Long               
                
Insurance               
Assured Guaranty Ltd.   25   $1,187    26.2%
Fidelity National Financial Inc.   77    3,346    73.8 
                
Net Value of Reference Entity — JPMorgan Securities PLC       $4,533      

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

Various inputs are used in determining the fair value of financial instruments. For description of the input levels and information about the Fund’s policy regarding valuation of financial instruments, refer to a recently published shareholder report. Shareholder reports are available on the Fund’s website at iShares.com and on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website at sec.gov.

 

The following table summarizes the value of the Fund’s investments according to the fair value hierarchy as of June 30, 2021. The breakdown of the Fund’s investments into major categories is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments above.

 

   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total 
Investments                
Assets                
Common Stocks  $6,119,842   $   $   $6,119,842 
Money Market Funds   42,582            42,582 
   $6,162,424   $   $   $6,162,424 
Derivative financial instruments(a)                    
Liabilities                    
Swaps  $   $(546)  $   $(546)

 

(a)Shown at the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on the contracts.

 

Portfolio Abbreviations - Equity

 

NVS Non-Voting Shares
REIT Real Estate Investment Trust

 

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