Fund · Dimensional World ex. U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-07-31Read 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.
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 2026-07-31DFAX'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
19Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% collateralDFAX'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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 1.49% | 1.5% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.15% | 2.6% |
| 3 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 1.04% | 3.7% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 0.68% | 4.4% |
| 5 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.61% | 5.0% |
| 6 | SK hynix Inc. | 0.61% | 5.6% |
| 7 | Fujikura Ltd. | 0.57% | 6.2% |
| 8 | ASML Holding N.V. | 0.57% | 6.7% |
| 9 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.56% | 7.3% |
| 10 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 0.51% | 7.8% |
| 11 | SHELL PLC | 0.50% | 8.3% |
| 12 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.41% | 8.7% |
| 13 | Nestle S.A. | 0.37% | 9.1% |
| 14 | CELESTICA INC. | 0.31% | 9.4% |
| 15 | Roche Holding AG | 0.31% | 9.7% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of DFAX's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFAX's own filings, 57 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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
2026-07-31The 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.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-04-3010,275 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 1.08% | 1.46% | Tencent Holdings Limited | 0.69% | 0.50% |
| ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.00% | 0.23% | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.50% | 0.40% |
| Fujikura Ltd. | 0.34% | 0.56% | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.33% | 0.23% |
| SK hynix Inc. | 0.45% | 0.59% | Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft | 0.32% | 0.22% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 0.90% | 1.02% | NOVO NORDISK A/S | 0.22% | 0.15% |
| UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 0.10% | 0.21% | Bayer Aktiengesellschaft | 0.28% | 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 EC | 90.15% |
| unknown unknown | 6.75% |
| short-term investment STIV | 3.11% |
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 2026-04-30A 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.
4 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:
| Type | Side | Strike | Expiry | Underlying |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call | Purchased | 0 | 2040-03-31 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Purchased | 0 | 2030-08-02 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Purchased | 1 | 2030-10-27 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Purchased | 0.45 | 2028-12-31 | as filed, not named |
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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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