iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF

Profile

iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF is an equity exchange-traded fund that provides focused exposure to North American software and selected interactive media and services companies. The fund seeks to track the S&P North American Expanded Technology Software Index, using a representative sampling approach to mirror the composition and characteristics of the underlying benchmark. It invests primarily in U.S. and Canadian firms involved in application software, systems software, cloud services, cybersecurity, and digital media, with a portfolio spanning large, mid, and smaller capitalization companies. Today, iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF plays a specialized role in the market by concentrating on the software segment of the technology and communication services sectors, offering broad industry coverage across enterprise software, consumer applications, and interactive home entertainment. Launched in 2001 and domiciled in the United States, it is managed by BlackRock Fund Advisors under the iShares Trust umbrella, and is used widely as a tool for targeted software-sector exposure within diversified equity allocations.