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DFAX holdings

DFAX reports 10,509 holdings and behaves like 668.2 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 19 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

6.8% of net assets carries no asset category in the filing

3.2% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 399.9

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.

10,509 Positions reported
668.2 Effective holdings
15.7× Concentration multiple
8.24% 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: 96.29% at a quoted market price (level 1), 51 issuer countries, 2.29% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

DFAX's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 1.45% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd follow; the three together are 3.59%. Ten companies are 8.24% of the fund; the other 10,499 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, DFAX behaves like 668.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 15.8 times the median. Across 19 quarterly filings DFAX has become more concentrated: it behaved like 1223.8 at 2021-10-31 and 782.6 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 421 positions were added and 224 dropped; 9.4% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 15.28% of the portfolio, across 51 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 2021

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Between 2021-10-31 and 2026-04-30, DFAX went from behaving like 1223.8 equally weighted positions to 782.6 — 36% fewer, while its top ten went from 5.15% to 7.58% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 10,607 782.6 7.58% 1.46%
2026-01-31 10,408 848.4 7.02% 1.16%
2025-10-31 10,376 899.4 6.66% 1.02%
2025-07-31 10,354 1007 5.98% 0.81%
2025-04-30 10,176 997.4 6% 0.75%
2025-01-31 10,174 1020.8 5.86% 0.85%
2024-10-31 10,172 1044.6 5.99% 0.79%
2024-07-31 10,048 1051.7 5.97% 0.7%
Earlier filings (11 more, back to 2021-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 9,874 1042.9 6% 0.81%
2024-01-31 9,610 1051.3 5.77% 0.76%
2023-10-31 9,599 986.3 5.94% 0.89%
2023-07-31 9,896 1037.3 5.53% 0.7%
2023-04-30 9,844 1016.6 5.72% 0.77%
2023-01-31 9,863 1070.2 5.37% 0.73%
2022-10-31 9,829 1119.3 5.28% 0.8%
2022-07-31 9,790 1136 5.17% 0.81%
2022-04-30 9,702 1140 5.2% 0.92%
2022-01-31 9,367 1143.6 5.33% 0.85%
2021-10-31 9,425 1223.8 5.15% 0.85%

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

3.2% collateral

DFAX's filing lists 10,511 positions including 3.2% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 399.9 effective holdings with a top ten of 11%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 668.2 with a top ten of 8.24%. 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 10,509 positions in DFAX's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited1.49%1.5%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.15%2.6%
3Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited1.04%3.7%
4Novartis AG0.68%4.4%
5TOTALENERGIES SE0.61%5.0%
6SK hynix Inc.0.61%5.6%
7Fujikura Ltd.0.57%6.2%
8ASML Holding N.V.0.57%6.7%
9ROYAL BANK OF CANADA0.56%7.3%
10Tencent Holdings Limited0.51%7.8%
11SHELL PLC0.50%8.3%
12TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION0.41%8.7%
13Nestle S.A.0.37%9.1%
14CELESTICA INC.0.31%9.4%
15Roche Holding AG0.31%9.7%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Japan 15.26%
Canada 8.73%
Taiwan 8.46%
United Kingdom 6.49%
South Korea 5.93%
Germany 5.16%
Switzerland 4.81%
India 4.45%

Returns the fund reported

2021-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFAX's own filings, 57 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

38.4%Last twelve months filed
58%Whole series, compounded
11.7%Best month
-10.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.50 percentage points over 55 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: DFAX.json · all funds.

Who borrows DFAX'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, $843m was out to 41 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 12.2% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $103m 12.2%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $91m 10.8%
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $72m 8.5%
BofA Securities, Inc. $63m 7.5%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $48m 5.7%

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 DFAX has filed, with each borrower: DFAX.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

10,275 positions became 10,472: 421 added (0.8% of the fund at the later date), 224 dropped (1.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of DFAX 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 Limited1.08%1.46% Tencent Holdings Limited0.69%0.50%
ASTRAZENECA PLC0.00%0.23% TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION0.50%0.40%
Fujikura Ltd.0.34%0.56% Alibaba Group Holding Limited0.33%0.23%
SK hynix Inc.0.45%0.59% Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft0.32%0.22%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited0.90%1.02% NOVO NORDISK A/S0.22%0.15%
UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP.0.10%0.21% Bayer Aktiengesellschaft0.28%0.21%

New: Roche Holding AG (0.30%), SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (0.08%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.06%), COEUR MINING, INC. (0.05%), KE Holdings Inc. (0.03%), EURO (0.02%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (0.36%), ASTRAZENECA PLC (0.24%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.08%), ASHTEAD GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (0.07%), NEW GOLD INC. (0.06%), ROYAL GOLD, INC. (0.02%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC90.15%
unknown unknown6.75%
short-term investment STIV3.11%

96.3% of DFAX is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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 $11.52B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

92.84%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0%Futures notional (0)
92.8%Sum, % of net assets

4 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased02040-03-31as filed, not named
CallPurchased02030-08-02as filed, not named
CallPurchased12030-10-27as filed, not named
CallPurchased0.452028-12-31as filed, not named

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

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of DFAX (668.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
VXF Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund 3,371 582.2 7.55% 2026-06-30
DLS WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 1,021 582.8 5.72% 2026-06-30
BBSC JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 853 601.1 4.59% 2026-07-31
GSSC Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta(R) U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 1,320 610.4 6.56% 2026-05-31
DFIC Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 4,128 640.4 6.91% 2026-07-31
VB Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund 1,316 689.3 4.33% 2026-06-30
PRFZ Invesco RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid ETF 1,500 718.3 3.81% 2026-07-31
RSSL Global X Russell 2000 ETF 1,961 836.2 3.31% 2026-07-31
IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF 2,016 840.2 3.42% 2026-06-30
DFAS Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF 2,055 896.9 2.54% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine DFAX

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