iShares Gold Trust Micro Shares

IAUM Fund · NYSE Arca

Market statistics

Annualised volatility 28.9%
Beta vs SPY 0.75
Market correlation 0.331
Rate sensitivity -0.26
Volatility sensitivity -0.27
Traded per day $82.8M

Measured from daily returns over the past year. That is not the same estimator as the beta quoted on most finance sites, which is usually five years of monthly returns, and in a market where single stocks move on their own news the daily figure comes out materially lower. Over this window the average large-cap correlation to the index is far below its long-run level: a low number here is a statement about the last twelve months, not a claim that the security is uncorrelated with the market in general.

Short selling — three different measurements

Shares short 5.4M
Days to cover 2.2
Change vs prior +274.5%
Short share of volume 76.2%
Largest fail balance 2.3M
Dates with a fail balance 21

These measure different things and are routinely confused. Shares short is an outstanding position, reported twice monthly (settlement 2026-08-14). Short share of volume counts sell-side transactions flagged short each day, most of which is market-maker hedging closed the same session — the market-wide median is around half. Fail balances are shares that did not settle on time; the SEC states these are cumulative balances whose age cannot be determined, and they are not evidence of naked short selling.

Ownership

Institutions reporting a position 275
Reported value $3.13B

Largest reported holdersamong the managers stored here

ManagerReported valueShares
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, Inc. $1.25B 26,834,927
Asset Management One Co., Ltd. $66.7M 1,427,692

On the public record

Moves most like

Ticker1-year correlationVolatility vs IAUM
SGOL abrdn Physical Gold Shares ETF 1.000 1.00×
GLDM SPDR Gold MiniShares Trust 1.000 1.00×
IAU iShares Gold Trust Shares 1.000 1.00×
AAAU Goldman Sachs Physical Gold ETF Shares 1.000 1.00×
GLD SPDR Gold Shares 1.000 1.01×
OUNZ VanEck Merk Gold ETF 1.000 1.00×
BAR GraniteShares Gold Trust Shares of Beneficial Interest 1.000 1.00×
PHYS Sprott Physical Gold Trust ETV 0.994 1.04×

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Coverage

US securities trading at least $1 million a day with three years of history. Sections appear only where there is something to show: a fund has no income statement, most companies have no activist stake, and only a few dozen listed companies hold material federal contracts.