IAU Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (iShares Gold Trust Shares | ARCA:IAU)

The iShares Gold Trust (Trust) seeks to correspond generally to the day-to-day movement of the price of gold bullion. The objective of the Trust is for the value to reflect at any given time the price of gold owned by the Trust at that time less the expenses and liabilities of the Trust.

iShares Gold Trust Shares trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol IAU.

As of July 9, 2026, IAU stock price climbed to $77.51 with 4,000,400 million shares trading.

IAU has a beta of 0.67, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. IAU has a correlation of 0.13 to the broad based SPY ETF.

IAU has a market cap of $61.40 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, IAU traded as high as $104.40 and as low as $34.35.

IAU has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +24.5% while the SPY ETF gained +22.4%. However, in the short term, IAU had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -12.9% vs +11.5% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, IAU shares have fared better than the market returning +3.4% compared to SPY +2.5%.

IAU support price is $75.29 and resistance is $78.19 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that IAU shares will trade within this expected range on the day.