iShares Gold Trust Shares (IAU) closed at $77.71 on October 21, 2026, up 0.3% from the previous close, on volume of 4,804,737 shares (30-day average 4,528,522).
Data as of October 21, 2026.
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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 October 21, 2026, IAU stock price climbed to $77.71 with 4,804,737 million shares trading.
IAU has a beta of 0.85, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. IAU has a correlation of 0.18 to the broad based SPY ETF.
IAU has a market cap of $61.53 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, IAU traded as high as $104.40 and as low as $36.57.
IAU has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -5.8% while the SPY ETF gained +16.3%. IAU has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +3.1% and -0.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.4% and -0.8%, respectively.
IAU support price is $76.46 and resistance is $78.42 (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.
