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iShares STOXX Europe 600 Chemicals UCITS ETF (DE)

iShares · DE000A0H08E0

iShares STOXX Europe 600 Chemicals UCITS ETF (DE) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker SX4PEX (ISIN DE000A0H08E0). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the materials part of the market, so…

· Tracks the STOXX Europe 600 index ?

Equity ?Distributing ?Physical ?Germany ?

Mid-range feePays cash dividendsOwns the shares directlyEuropeConcentrated in a few names

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Fund size (AUM) ?

€99.1M

Risk level (SRI) ?

6 / 7 · High

1-year return ?

+5.3%

Price Return · to 2026-07-28

Dividend yield

2.05%

Trailing 12 months

Yearly fee (TER) ?

0.46%

All-in cost ≈ 0.46%

About this fund

What you own

The STOXX Europe 600 index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 30 companies across Europe in a single purchase.

Dividends

The fund pays dividends out to you as cash, usually a few times a year.

You get the dividends as cash you can spend or move elsewhere, which some people like for a sense of income. If you would rather it compounded, you buy more units yourself — it will not reinvest on its own the way an accumulating version does. The same fund is often sold in both versions; what it holds underneath is identical.

How it works

The fund actually buys every share in the index it tracks (full replication).

Owning every holding keeps things transparent — what is in the index is what the fund actually owns. It can be a touch costlier to run for indexes with thousands of tiny positions, since the fund has to buy and maintain them all. There is no swap bank involved, so there is no extra “what if the partner fails” question to weigh.

Cost

0.46%Yearly fee (TER)

0.46%All-in cost

The yearly running cost of the fund, shown as a % of your money. Lower is cheaper.

For example, a 0.20% fee works out at €0.20 a year for every €100 invested — that’s a generic illustration of the mechanic, not this fund’s own fee. It is skimmed quietly from inside the fund a little each day, so you never get a bill — but it drags on your return every year you hold. On a broad index ETF it is usually a small fraction of a percent; the gap between a cheap and a pricey fund looks tiny on day one but compounds over decades, which is why it is worth a glance.

Fund facts

Index tracked ?

STOXX Europe 600

Replication ?

Physical

Full — buys every share

Regulation ?

UCITS

Yes

Launched

Jul 2002

24-year track record

Recommended holding period

medium to long term

Performance

Growth of €100 invested — the line starts at €100.

iShares STOXX Europe 600 Chemicals UCITS ETF (DE)

End-of-day prices, rebased to a common start so the shapes are comparable. Past performance does not predict future results.

YTD+14.3%

1 year+5.3%

3 years+0.4%

5 years-0.2%

Return, year by year

-16.4

+13.1

-9.0

-5.9

'22'23'24'25

1 of 4 up yearsBest: 2023 +13.1%Worst: 2022 -16.4%Calendar-year total returns, in EUR

How bumpy has it been?

15.7%

Volatility (1y) ?

How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.

-20.2%

Worst drop (3y) ?

The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.

0.03

Return for the risk (3y) ?

Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

-0.3%

Since inception

Total growth since launch — about -0.1% a year.

+18.2%

Best 12 months

The strongest one-year stretch on record.

-18.9%

Worst 12 months

The weakest one-year stretch on record.

-26.2%

Worst fall on record ?

It has not fully recovered yet.

What's inside

By sector ?

Materials88.8%

Consumer Staples5.5%

Industrials5.4%

Other0.3%

The 10 biggest holdings make up 86.4% of the fund — the rest is spread across roughly 20 more companies.

Top 10 holdings

#	Company	Weight
1	LAIR LIQUIDE SOCIETE ANONYME POUR	31.0%
2	GIVAUDAN SA	14.0%
3	BASF N	14.0%
4	SYMRISE AG	5.8%
5	HENKEL & KGAA PREF AG	5.5%
6	AKZO NOBEL NV	5.0%
7	BRENNTAG	3.2%
8	YARA INTERNATIONAL	3.0%
9	EMS-CHEMIE HOLDING AG	2.5%
10	IMCD NV	2.3%

Where to buy this fund

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Where it trades

Exchange	Ticker	Currency
SIX	SX4PEX	CHF	★ Primary
EUR listings
AV	EX29	EUR
B2	SX4PEX	EUR
B3	EX29V	EUR
B3	EXV7D	EUR
B4	SX4PE	EUR
BW	SX4PEX	EUR
E1	SX4PE	EUR
E1	SX4PEGBX	EUR
EB	EXV7D	EUR
EO	SX4PEGBX	EUR
EO	SX4PE	EUR
EP	SX4PE	EUR
EU	SX4PE	EUR
EU	SX4PEGBX	EUR
EZ	SX4PE	EUR
Frankfurt	SX4PEX	EUR
GD	SX4PEX	EUR
GF	SX4PEX	EUR
GH	SX4PEX	EUR
GM	SX4PEX	EUR
GS	SX4PEX	EUR
GT	SX4PEX	EUR
GZ	EXV7	EUR
I2	EXV7D	EUR
IX	EXV7D	EUR
L1	EXV7D	EUR
L1	EX29V	EUR
L3	EXV7D	EUR
L3	EX29V	EUR
LA	SX4PEX	EUR
LO	0MO5	EUR
London Stock Exchange	EXV7	EUR
LU	SX4PEX	EUR
PO	EXV7D	EUR
PO	EX29V	EUR
QE	EXV7D	EUR
QT	EXV7	EUR
QX	EXV7D	EUR
S1	EXV7D	EUR
S4	EXV7D	EUR
T2	SX4PEX	EUR
TH	EXV7	EUR
X2	SX4PE	EUR
X9	SX4PE	EUR
XA	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XE	SX4PE	EUR
XE	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XETRA	SX4PEX	EUR
XF	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XG	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XH	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XJ	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XL	SX4PE	EUR
XL	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XO	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XQ	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XS	SX4PE	EUR
XT	SX4PE	EUR
XT	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XU	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XV	SX4PE	EUR
XV	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XW	SX4PE	EUR
XW	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XX	SX4PE	EUR
XX	SX4PEGBX	EUR
XZ	SX4PEGBX	EUR

For serious comparison — full data holdings, percentiles, advanced risk, tilt, flows

Full holdings

As of 2026-07-28 · the fund's own published holdings.

#	Company	Weight
1	LAIR LIQUIDE SOCIETE ANONYME POUR	31.0%
2	GIVAUDAN SA	14.0%
3	BASF N	14.0%
4	SYMRISE AG	5.8%
5	HENKEL & KGAA PREF AG	5.5%
6	AKZO NOBEL NV	5.0%
7	BRENNTAG	3.2%
8	YARA INTERNATIONAL	3.0%
9	EMS-CHEMIE HOLDING AG	2.5%
10	IMCD NV	2.3%
11	CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLC	2.3%
12	UMICORE SA	2.2%
13	EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG	1.9%
14	JOHNSON MATTHEY PLC	1.9%
15	ARKEMA SA	1.8%
16	FUCHS PREF	1.3%
17	K+S N AG	1.1%
18	EUR CASH	1.0%
19	KEMIRA	0.9%
20	CASH COLLATERAL EUR MLIFT	0.0%
21	SEK CASH	0.0%
22	USD CASH	0.0%
23	CHF/EUR	0.0%
24	ETD EUR BALANCE WITH R67675	0.0%
25	NOK/EUR	0.0%
26	GBP/EUR	0.0%
27	STOXX 600 CHEM SEP 26	0.0%
28	GBP CASH	-0.1%
29	NOK CASH	-0.1%
30	CHF CASH	-0.5%

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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 0% of similar ETFs💰 All-in cost cheaper than 0%📈 Higher 1-yr return than 0%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 0%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 0%📊 Behind its category by 32.0% (1-yr) (category average +37.3%)📊 Behind its category by 12.1% (3-yr) (category average +12.4%)📊 Behind its category by 5.9% (5-yr) (category average +5.7%)

Versus the Equity (stocks) · Europe · Materials · EUR ETFs we track.

Advanced risk

0.04

Sortino (3y) ?

0.02

Calmar (3y) ?

10.6%

Downside deviation ?

58%

Up months (hit rate) ?

€128.36

52-week high ?

€107.32

52-week low ?

Concentration depth

~7 ?

Effective number of holdings

Roughly 30 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~7 equal-sized positions.

Tilt vs a world tracker

Materials+85.5

United States-72.1

France+30.5

Germany+30.4

Technology-29.2

Financials-16.3

Percentage points over / under a broad world-equity tracker (not a licensed benchmark).

Estimated fund flows

−€200,000

Estimated net flow, last month

Estimated from fund-size changes.

Documents

📄 KID (PDF)

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Yearly fee (TER)	0.46%	0.05%	0.07%	0.07%	0.07%	0.09%	0.15%
All-in cost	0.46%	0.45%	0.00%	0.07%	0.07%	0.09%	0.15%
Fund size	€99.1M	€50.3B	€28.7B	€28.4B	€21.7B	€21.6B	€21.4B
Domicile	Germany	Ireland	LU	LU	LU	LU	LU
Replication	Physical (full)	Synthetic (swap)	Synthetic (swap)	Synthetic (swap)	Physical (full)	Physical (full)	Physical (full)
3-yr return p.a.	+0.4%	+19.2%		+18.4%
5-yr return p.a.	-0.2%	+10.0%		+9.0%
# holdings	30	295	10	10	613	613	613

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Data as of 2026-07-28 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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