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SMMD · Ishares Russell 2500 ETF
Over the last 9 years (2017-08 to 2026-10), $10,000 invested in SMMD with dividends reinvested grew to $24,622, 10.23% a year, with a worst peak-to-trough fall of -29.82%. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
Growth of $10,000 · 2017-08 to 2026-10 · dividends reinvested
How SMMD held up in past market crashes
SMMD has been through 3 of the market crashes since 2000 in our data. Its deepest price fall was 41.1% in the 2020 COVID crash, when the S&P 500 fell 34.1%. It took 8 months from the bottom to get back to its high. No fund is safe from losses; past falls do not predict future ones.
| Crash | SMMD deepest fall | S&P 500 (SPY) | Peak to bottom | Back to peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 fourth-quarter selloff | -25.6% | -20.2% | Sep 2018 to Dec 2018 | 13 months |
| 2020 COVID crash | -41.1% | -34.1% | Feb 2020 to Mar 2020 | 8 months |
| 2022 bear market | -25.7% | -25.4% | Jan 2022 to Sep 2022 | 22 months |
Price declines in the fund's listing currency, dividends not included, inside each crash's S&P 500 peak-to-bottom window. See how 50 popular ETFs compare in the crash study.
About SMMD
iShares Russell 2500 ETF is an exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the performance of the Russell 2500 Index, giving investors broad exposure to U.S. small- and mid-cap equities. The fund is designed to represent a diversified slice of the domestic equity market, holding companies across a wide range of sectors such as industrials, financials, technology, healthcare, and consumer industries. Managed by BlackRock under the iShares brand, it uses a passive indexing approach to mirror the benchmark as closely as possible. iShares Russell 2500 ETF is used by market participants as a core building block for accessing the smaller-company segment of the U.S. stock market within a single fund structure.
Put SMMD to the test
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Backtest SMMD →
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Would SMMD survive 2008? →
What actually happened to it in the crisis: real drawdown and recovery.
Project it forward →
Monte Carlo simulation of where it could go from here.
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Head-to-head against the total US market.
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Animated growth of steady monthly contributions.
Fundamentals →
Holdings-level financials where available.
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