{"id":12732,"date":"2026-09-02T22:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:38:25","slug":"blackrocks-bitcoin-etf-beat-the-sp-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF beat the S&#038;P 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-single-article-content=\"\">\n<p>BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has narrowly outperformed the S&amp;P 500 since launch despite subjecting investors to a drawdown nearly three times as deep.<\/p>\n<p>The iShares Bitcoin Trust, or IBIT, returned 67.74% from its Jan. 11, 2024 debut through Aug. 31, compared with 66.14% for Vanguard\u2019s S&amp;P 500 ETF, or VOO, on a total-return basis that reinvests dividends.<\/p>\n<p>That left IBIT ahead by just 1.60 percentage points after Bitcoin surged to a record high and then gave back much of those gains during a prolonged downturn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHard to believe IBIT is beating VOO since inception but it\u2019s true,\u201d Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas wrote Sept. 1, noting that the gap remained narrow.<\/p>\n<p>Balchunas compared IBIT\u2019s path toward a roughly 70% gain to the El Toro roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure, while describing VOO\u2019s advance as a walk in the park. He said the result was especially surprising given the bearish mood that dominated Bitcoin from October through July.<\/p>\n<h2>IBIT\u2019s narrow lead came with a 53% drawdown<\/h2>\n<p>The similarity in headline returns disappears once you consider the path investors took to get there.<\/p>\n<p>IBIT\u2019s worst peak-to-trough decline reached 53.30% between Oct. 6, 2025, and June 30, 2026. VOO\u2019s maximum drawdown over the comparison period was 18.69%, from Feb. 19 through April 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-559851\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c.png\" alt=\"Comparison of IBIT and VOO showing 67.74% versus 66.14% total returns, 53.30% versus 18.69% maximum drawdowns, and their Sept. 1 moves.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c-768x1152.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-559851\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c.png\" alt=\"Comparison of IBIT and VOO showing 67.74% versus 66.14% total returns, 53.30% versus 18.69% maximum drawdowns, and their Sept. 1 moves.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/exec-c937384a-48a3-4aa8-9108-8af1a962482c-768x1152.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Investors who bought both funds when IBIT launched therefore ended Aug. 31 with broadly similar cumulative returns, but Bitcoin ETF holders had to withstand a decline of more than half from the fund\u2019s peak.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter\" data-inline-newsletter=\"\" data-newsletter-placement=\"article-midpoint\" data-newsletter-pending-label=\"Joining\u2026\" data-newsletter-pending-status=\"Joining the Daily Brief\u2026\" data-newsletter-email-required-message=\"Before sending, please provide your email address.\" aria-labelledby=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-title\" aria-describedby=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-copy\">\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__inner\">\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__content\"> <span class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__eyebrow\"> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-envelope\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> The Daily Brief <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-title\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__title\">The signal, before the noise.<\/h2>\n<p id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-copy\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__copy\">Start your day with the crypto stories moving markets, decoded by CryptoSlate\u2019s editors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__form-shell\">\n<p class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__form-heading\">One email. Everything that matters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-privacy\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__privacy\">Free to join. Unsubscribe any time.<\/p>\n<p> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-circle-xmark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> <span>Whoops, looks like there was a problem. Please try again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-circle-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> <span><strong>You\u2019re on the list.<\/strong> Your next Daily Brief is on its way.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price history helps explain much of that gap.<\/p>\n<p>BTC traded near $47,000 when US spot ETFs debuted in January 2024 and later surged to a record high of around $126,000 in 2025 following Donald Trump&#8217;s election victory. However, its value then fell as low as roughly $58,000 this year before recovering to around $77,000 as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>That reversal erased much of the performance advantage IBIT had built during Bitcoin\u2019s run to record highs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cs-article-embed\">\n<p> <span class=\"cs-article-embed__related-reading\">Related Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"cs-article-embed__title\">Bitcoin&#8217;s first institutional bear market is starting to take shape and draining liquidity<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"cs-article-embed__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"> <i class=\"fa-light fa-arrow-up-right\"\/> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p>Nevertheless, that volatility has not stopped Wall Street from building substantially deeper infrastructure around the asset. BlackRock has recommended a 2% BTC allocation for investors seeking diversification and long-term return potential.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this comparison also pits the two funds at very different stages of maturity.<\/p>\n<p>IBIT, now the largest spot Bitcoin ETF, manages about $60 billion in assets and has accumulated roughly $63 billion of inflows since launch, giving BlackRock\u2019s less-than-three-year-old product a scale few new ETFs have reached.<\/p>\n<p>VOO remains in another league. The Vanguard fund, which tracks the S&amp;P 500 and provides broad exposure to large-cap US equities, crossed $1 trillion in net assets in June 2026, becoming the first ETF to reach that threshold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Analysis,ETF,Featured,Trading,Bitcoin,Blackrock,BTC,VanguardBitcoin,Blackrock,BTC,ETF,Vanguard#BlackRocks #Bitcoin #ETF #beat1788388705<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has narrowly outperformed the S&amp;P 500 since launch despite subjecting investors to a drawdown nearly three times as deep. The iShares Bitcoin Trust, or IBIT, returned 67.74% from its Jan. 11, 2024 debut through Aug. 31, compared with 66.14% for Vanguard\u2019s S&amp;P 500 ETF, or VOO, on a total-return basis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1123,91,280,487,285,231,5358],"class_list":["post-12732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethereum","tag-beat","tag-bitcoin","tag-blackrock","tag-blackrocks","tag-btc","tag-etf","tag-vanguard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF beat the S&amp;P 500 - Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, narrowly topped Vanguard\u2019s S&amp;P 500 ETF VOO ETF since launch after a far rougher ride.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF beat the S&amp;P 500\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, narrowly topped Vanguard\u2019s S&amp;P 500 ETF VOO ETF since launch after a far rougher ride.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-02T22:38:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/etf-volatility-rollercoaster.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"665\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u884c\u653f\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u884c\u653f\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732\",\"name\":\"BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF beat the S&P 500 - Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/etf-volatility-rollercoaster.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-02T22:38:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/822778c5844e0d16d43dce6630f4f1bf\"},\"description\":\"BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, narrowly topped Vanguard\u2019s S&amp;P 500 ETF VOO ETF since launch after a far rougher ride.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/etf-volatility-rollercoaster.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/etf-volatility-rollercoaster.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":665},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12732#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF beat the S&#038;P 500\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/\",\"name\":\"Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\",\"description\":\"Latest Crypto &amp; 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