Three iShares ETFs Beating the S&P 500 by 30 Points in 2025
A handful of iShares ETFs are dramatically outpacing the S&P 500 this year. Here's what's driving the gap.
If your portfolio is just sitting in a plain S&P 500 index fund, you might be leaving serious returns on the table. According to Yahoo Finance, three iShares ETFs have managed to outperform the S&P 500 by a staggering 30 percentage points so far in 2025 — a gap that's hard to ignore no matter what kind of investor you are.
That kind of spread doesn't happen by accident. It typically signals a major rotation in market leadership — meaning the sectors or asset classes inside those winning ETFs are attracting heavy institutional money. When you see 30-point outperformance, traders are voting with real capital, not just sentiment.
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For retail traders, the takeaway is straightforward: benchmark-hugging has a cost. If broad market exposure was your entire strategy heading into this year, the opportunity cost is already baked in. The question now is whether the momentum in these iShares products has legs, or whether a mean-reversion trade is setting up on the other side.
Position sizing matters here. Chasing a 30-point winner late in a run is a classic retail mistake. The smarter move is understanding *why* these ETFs outperformed — sector tilt, geographic exposure, factor weighting — and deciding whether those same tailwinds are still intact going forward.
Continue reading at Yahoo Finance for the full breakdown of which three iShares ETFs are leading the pack and the specific factors behind their outsized 2025 returns.
