Designed to provide broad exposure to the Mid Cap Value segment of the US equity market, the iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF (IJJ) is a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on July 24, 2000.
The fund is sponsored by Blackrock. It has amassed assets over $8.29 billion, making it one of the larger ETFs attempting to match the Mid Cap Value segment of the US equity market.
Why Mid Cap Value
Mid cap companies, with market capitalization in the range of $2 billion and $10 billion, offer investors many things that small and large companies don’t, including less risk and higher growth opportunities. Thus they have a nice balance of growth potential and stability.
Value stocks are known for their lower than average price-to-earnings and price-to-book ratios, but investors should also note their lower than average sales and earnings growth rates. Considering long-term performance, value stocks have outperformed growth stocks in almost all markets; however, they are more likely to underperform growth stocks in strong bull markets.
Costs
Investors should also pay attention to an ETF’s expense ratio. Lower cost products will produce better results than those with a higher cost, assuming all other metrics remain the same.
Annual operating expenses for this ETF are 0.18%, making it one of the cheaper products in the space.
It has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 1.69%.
Sector Exposure and Top Holdings
Even though ETFs offer diversified exposure which minimizes single stock risk, it is still important to look into a fund’s holdings before investing. Luckily, most ETFs are very transparent products that disclose their holdings on a daily basis.
This ETF has heaviest allocation to the Financials sector — about 22.9% of the portfolio. Industrials and Consumer Discretionary round out the top three.
Looking at individual holdings, Us Foods Holding Corp (USFD) accounts for about 1.24% of total assets, followed by Alcoa Corp (AA) and Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS).
The top 10 holdings account for about 5.34% of total assets under management.
Performance and Risk
IJJ seeks to match the performance of the S&P MidCap 400 Value Index before fees and expenses. The S&P MidCap 400 Value Index measures the performance of the mid-capitalization value sector of the U.S. equity market. It is a subset of the S&P MidCap 400 and consists of those stocks in the S&P MidCap 400 exhibiting the strongest value characteristics.
The ETF has added roughly 5.62% so far this year and is up about 14.32% in the last one year (as of 05/19/2026). In the past 52-week period, it has traded between $118.63 and $143.73.