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Fund · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · measured from SEC filings

AAXJ holdings

AAXJ reports 953 holdings and behaves like 23.5 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

3.7% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 22.6

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

953 Positions reported
23.5 Effective holdings
40.6× Concentration multiple
42.1% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 6.28% at a quoted market price (level 1), 15 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

AAXJ's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 16.28% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 27.69%. Ten companies are 42.1% of the fund; the other 943 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, AAXJ behaves like 23.5 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.8 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings AAXJ has become more concentrated: it behaved like 78.2 at 2019-10-31 and 27 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 18 positions were added and 28 dropped; 10.3% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 28.19% of the portfolio, across 15 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

27

Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, AAXJ went from behaving like 78.2 equally weighted positions to 27 — 66% fewer, while its top ten went from 28.39% to 39.45% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 917 27 39.45% 16.21%
2026-01-31 927 33.6 37.03% 14%
2025-10-31 934 37.1 35.23% 13.21%
2025-07-31 923 44.4 32.07% 11.95%
2025-04-30 922 54.7 30.14% 9.98%
2025-01-31 945 46.9 29.99% 11.96%
2024-10-31 955 52.2 29.41% 11.03%
2024-07-31 992 52.5 29.52% 10.81%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 1,013 61.8 28.25% 9.41%
2024-01-31 1,049 69.7 27.41% 8.54%
2023-10-31 1,055 75.9 27.13% 7.36%
2023-07-31 1,047 76.3 27.19% 7.17%
2023-04-30 1,035 78.9 27.08% 7.03%
2023-01-31 1,032 74.8 28.03% 7.15%
2022-10-31 1,042 92.8 25.44% 6.28%
2022-07-31 1,043 79.6 26.95% 7.31%
2022-04-30 1,063 74.8 27.84% 7.46%
2022-01-31 1,062 63 29.92% 8.37%
2021-10-31 1,073 67.3 29.55% 7.51%
2021-07-31 1,077 64.1 29.96% 7.35%
2021-04-30 1,071 56.3 32.09% 7.18%
2021-01-31 1,063 50 34.21% 7.23%
2020-10-31 1,089 43 36.22% 9.71%
2020-07-31 1,089 48.9 34.27% 8.41%
2020-04-30 1,105 58.7 31.64% 7.47%
2020-01-31 1,109 65.3 30.36% 6.91%
2019-10-31 886 78.2 28.39% 5.27%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

3.68% collateral

AAXJ's filing lists 954 positions including 3.68% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 22.6 effective holdings with a top ten of 44.98%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 23.5 with a top ten of 42.1%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 953 positions in AAXJ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: AAXJ.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited16.21%16.2%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.6.75%23.0%
3SK hynix Inc.4.61%27.6%
4Tencent Holdings Limited3.68%31.3%
5Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.68%33.9%
6DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.1.30%35.2%
7MediaTek Inc.1.21%36.4%
8AIA Group Limited1.09%37.5%
9CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION1.02%38.5%
10DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD0.90%39.4%
11HDFC BANK LIMITED0.88%40.3%
12RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED0.87%41.2%
13HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.84%42.0%
14Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.0.83%42.9%
15BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agency Shares0.72%43.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of AAXJ's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Taiwan 27.69%
South Korea 21.05%
Cayman Islands° 14.69%
India 13.33%
China 11.24%
Hong Kong SAR China 4.02%
Singapore 2.92%
Malaysia 1.24%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of AAXJ's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

50.0%Last twelve months filed
79%Whole series, compounded
20.4%Best month
-12.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.26 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: AAXJ.json · all funds.

Who borrows AAXJ's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $148m was out to 12 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 64.6% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $95m 64.6%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $16m 11.1%
BofA Securities, Inc. $14m 9.6%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $8m 5.3%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $4m 2.9%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter AAXJ has filed, with each borrower: AAXJ.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

926 positions became 916: 18 added (0.6% of the fund at the later date), 28 dropped (0.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.3%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of AAXJ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited14.00%16.21% Tencent Holdings Limited5.06%3.68%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.5.38%6.75% Alibaba Group Holding Limited3.76%2.68%
SK hynix Inc.3.51%4.61% HDFC BANK LIMITED1.18%0.88%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.77%1.30% INFOSYS LIMITED0.61%0.39%
MediaTek Inc.0.87%1.21% XIAOMI CORPORATION0.80%0.61%
ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD.0.17%0.41% AIA Group Limited1.26%1.09%

New: HonPrecision Inc (0.12%), Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (0.10%), HYUNDAI ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO.,LTD (0.08%), SenseTime Group Inc (0.07%), ADITYA BIRLA CAPITAL LIMITED (0.03%), Hesai Group (0.03%). Gone: COWAY Co., Ltd. (0.03%), DONGFENG MOTOR GROUP COMPANY LIMITED (0.03%), Nien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd. (0.03%), Doosan Bobcat Inc. (0.02%), Eclat Textile Co Ltd (0.02%), Cheng Shin Rubber Ind., Co., Ltd. (0.02%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC93.18%
short-term investment STIV4.00%
unknown unknown2.75%
preferred equity EP0.07%

6.3% of AAXJ is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $3.84B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

96.69%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.29%Futures notional (2)
97%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of AAXJ (23.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
TUR iShares MSCI Turkey ETF 74 23.2 53.86% 2026-05-31
SCHG Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 196 23.3 57.21% 2026-05-31
ONEQ Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF 1,024 23.3 57.6% 2026-05-31
FELG Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF 149 23.3 54.59% 2026-06-30
FHLC Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF 336 23.5 52.01% 2026-07-31
IWF iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 370 23.7 54.31% 2026-06-30
ARKF ARK Blockchain & Fintech Innovation ETF 41 23.7 54.61% 2026-07-31
VPU Vanguard Utilities Index Fund 68 23.9 52.69% 2026-05-31
EWQ iShares MSCI France ETF 58 23.9 57.1% 2026-05-31
FUTY Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF 63 24 52.33% 2026-07-31

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