QUAL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF | BATS:QUAL)

The iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index that measures the performance of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization stocks as identified through three fundamental variables return on equity, earnings variability and debt-to-equity.

iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF trades on the BATS stock market under the symbol QUAL.

As of January 9, 2026, QUAL stock price climbed to $204.07 with 1,032,984 million shares trading.

QUAL has a beta of 0.93, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. QUAL has a correlation of 0.96 to the broad based SPY ETF.

QUAL has a market cap of $49.28 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, QUAL traded as high as $204.41 and as low as $115.03.

QUAL has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +15.1%, while SPY returned +19.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in QUAL shares. However, QUAL has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +4.6% and +1.5%, while SPY returned +3.7% and +0.5%, respectively. This indicates QUAL has been having a stronger performance recently.

QUAL support price is $201.11 and resistance is $203.71 (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 QUAL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.