Profile: iShares Trust: iShares Morningstar Mid Growth Index Fund (JKH.P)

iShares Morningstar Mid Growth Index Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Morningstar Mid Growth Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of stocks issued by mid-capitalization companies that have exhibited above-average growth characteristics as determined by Morningstar, Inc.’s (Morningstar) index methodology. The Index constituents are drawn from the pool of liquid, United States-domiciled stocks that trade publicly on the NYSE, the AMEX or NASDAQ. The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. The Fund’s investment advisor is Barclays Global Fund Advisors.

The Morningstar index methodology defines mid-capitalization stocks as those stocks that form the 20% of market capitalization between the 70th and 90th percentile of the market capitalization of the stocks eligible to be included in the Morningstar US Market Index (a diversified broad market index that represents approximately 97% of the market capitalization of publicly traded United States stocks). Stocks are then designated as core, growth or value based on their style orientations. The stocks included in the Index are designated as growth because they are issued by companies that typically have higher than average historical and forecasted earnings, sales, equity and cash flow growth. Stocks in the Index are weighted according to the total number of shares that are publicly owned and available for trading.