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iShares Future AI & Tech ETF (ARTY) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on ARTY

What this diary said about iShares Future AI & Tech ETF, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

Our record on ARTY

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on iShares Future AI & Tech ETF, with the outcome where it is known.

Company snapshot — iShares Future AI & Tech ETF

ARTY in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
iShares Future AI & Tech ETF (ARTY) is an exchange-traded fund that puts most of its assets into companies whose products and services are expected to feed artificial intelligence, covering generative AI, AI data and infrastructure, AI software, and AI services. It tracks an index of US and non-US firms picked for this theme rather than owning a single business, so its return reflects a basket of AI-exposed names rather than one company's results.
Where it sits in the stack
ARTY carries no seat in our Rubin index, which maps the AI hardware build-out layer by layer, because it is a broad thematic wrapper rather than a single company tied to one layer. Within the diary's global ETF coverage it sits in the small thematic sleeve, grouped with other niche theme funds rather than assigned to a specific stage of the build-out.
Who it is priced against
The diary groups it with the other small thematic lines added in the same rebuild of the global ETF book, SGRT for earnings growth and TINY for nanotech, rather than with single-sector funds. The market also names broad AI-and-robotics ETFs such as BOTZ as the closer comparison outside the diary's own grouping.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
ARTY holds no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices and carries no Closelooknet score yet. It has appeared once in the diary, in a Daily Pulse piece on rebuilding the global ETF book, where it was named as one of three small thematic lines added alongside the earnings-growth and nanotech funds.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how the fund trades against its recent highs as sentiment around AI themes shifts, and whether it draws more mentions once its underlying holdings tilt more clearly toward hardware or software within the AI theme.

iShares Future AI & Tech ETF (ARTY) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for ARTY, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months · last 0.0700 USD on 2024-12-17

Dividends and capital return

What ARTY pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months No cash distribution in the last twelve months earlier distributions show in the price series, see the years below
  • Last distribution 0.0700 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2024-12-17
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.15 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.19 USD first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-20

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.84 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How ARTY has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.84 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), iShares Future AI & Tech ETF moved 0.84% on average · correlation 0.20 · higher than 79% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.23 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.47% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.17% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is iShares Future AI & Tech ETF (ARTY)?

iShares Future AI & Tech ETF is an exchange-traded fund trading as ARTY on the US exchange and is one of the benchmark ETFs Closelooknet tracks as a market reference, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

How does Closelooknet use ARTY?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote iShares Future AI & Tech ETF as a market reference, and this page matches the fund's largest holdings against the names Closelooknet covers so a reader can move from the fund to the companies inside it.

Where does ARTY trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +8.8% vs the 50-day and +28.3% vs the 200-day average, 3.1% below the 52-week high and +83.4% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does iShares Future AI & Tech ETF do?

iShares Future AI & Tech ETF (ARTY) is an exchange-traded fund that puts most of its assets into companies whose products and services are expected to feed artificial intelligence, covering generative AI, AI data and infrastructure, AI software, and AI services. It tracks an index of US and non-US firms picked for this theme rather than owning a single business, so its return reflects a basket of AI-exposed names rather than one company's results. The diary groups it with the other small thematic lines added in the same rebuild of the global ETF book, SGRT for earnings growth and TINY for nanotech, rather than with single-sector funds. The market also names broad AI-and-robotics ETFs such as BOTZ as the closer comparison outside the diary's own grouping.

Where does iShares Future AI & Tech ETF sit in the AI build-out?

ARTY carries no seat in our Rubin index, which maps the AI hardware build-out layer by layer, because it is a broad thematic wrapper rather than a single company tied to one layer. Within the diary's global ETF coverage it sits in the small thematic sleeve, grouped with other niche theme funds rather than assigned to a specific stage of the build-out. ARTY holds no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices and carries no Closelooknet score yet. It has appeared once in the diary, in a Daily Pulse piece on rebuilding the global ETF book, where it was named as one of three small thematic lines added alongside the earnings-growth and nanotech funds.

Does iShares Future AI & Tech ETF pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in iShares Future AI & Tech ETF’s price series over the last twelve months. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does iShares Future AI & Tech ETF trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year iShares Future AI & Tech ETF had a beta of 0.84 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 79% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.47% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about iShares Future AI & Tech ETF?

iShares Future AI & Tech ETF appears in 1 Closelooknet piece, most recently Daily Pulse: One Core, Three Countries: The Global ETF Book Rebuilt (2026-07-11). What Closelooknet said most recently: The materials sleeve went with them, IYM and the copper miners in ICOP, along with three small thematic lines: ARTY (AI & tech), SGRT (earnings growth), TINY (nanotech). (Daily Pulse, 2026-07-11). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ARTY, fund basics and the top holdings by weight with the Closelooknet names among them marked, the technical state where the data exists, and the research diary mentions — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Daily Pulse, “One Core, Three Countries: The Global ETF Book Rebuilt” (2026-07-11)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where ARTY appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies