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Fund · Dimensional Emerging Markets Core Equity 2 ETF · measured from SEC filings

DFEM holdings

DFEM reports 6,690 holdings and behaves like 64.3 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 17 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

5.5% of net assets carries no asset category in the filing

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.

6,690 Positions reported
64.3 Effective holdings
104× Concentration multiple
24.28% 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: 97.6% at a quoted market price (level 1), 37 issuer countries, 3.87% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

DFEM's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 9.23% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 16.14%. Ten companies are 24.28% of the fund; the other 6,680 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, DFEM behaves like 64.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.5 times the median. Across 17 quarterly filings DFEM has become more concentrated: it behaved like 178 at 2022-04-30 and 81.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 171 positions were added and 105 dropped; 11.2% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 26.11% of the portfolio, across 37 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 2022

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Between 2022-04-30 and 2026-04-30, DFEM went from behaving like 178 equally weighted positions to 81.8 — 54% fewer, while its top ten went from 17.21% to 21.79% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 6,579 81.8 21.79% 9.21%
2026-01-31 6,512 118.9 19.67% 7.08%
2025-10-31 6,638 126.7 18.95% 6.96%
2025-07-31 6,550 151.4 16.96% 6.32%
2025-04-30 6,516 175.3 16.18% 5.33%
2025-01-31 6,469 144 16.48% 6.75%
2024-10-31 6,333 156.3 16.18% 6.32%
2024-07-31 6,003 169.4 15.71% 5.9%
Earlier filings (9 more, back to 2022-04-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 5,935 186 15.5% 5.36%
2024-01-31 5,703 196.6 15.68% 4.91%
2023-10-31 5,542 194.3 16.15% 4.43%
2023-07-31 5,493 209.1 15.67% 3.77%
2023-04-30 5,042 199 15.53% 3.78%
2023-01-31 5,109 188 16.4% 3.85%
2022-10-31 5,002 233.9 13.97% 3.34%
2022-07-31 4,797 195.1 15.89% 4.3%
2022-04-30 4,540 178 17.21% 3.96%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 6,690 positions in DFEM'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 Limited9.21%9.2%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.3.72%12.9%
3SK hynix Inc.3.19%16.1%
4Tencent Holdings Limited1.95%18.1%
5Alibaba Group Holding Limited0.95%19.0%
6CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION0.74%19.8%
7Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.0.53%20.3%
8DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.51%20.8%
9PDD Holdings Inc.0.51%21.3%
10UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP.0.47%21.8%
11MPI CORPORATION0.45%22.2%
12HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY0.44%22.7%
13Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)0.43%23.1%
14HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.40%23.5%
15ICICI BANK LIMITED0.40%23.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 25.08%
South Korea 17.63%
India 12.76%
China 11.85%
Cayman Islands° 10.22%
Brazil 3.91%
South Africa 2.75%
Saudi Arabia 2.48%

Returns the fund reported

2022-02 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFEM's own filings, 51 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

46.6%Last twelve months filed
64%Whole series, compounded
14.4%Best month
-11.9%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: DFEM.json · all funds.

Who borrows DFEM'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, $742m was out to 30 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 20.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $155m 20.9%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $148m 19.9%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $108m 14.5%
UBS EUROPE SE $80m 10.8%
Barclays Capital Securities Ltd. $62m 8.3%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

6,503 positions became 6,569: 171 added (0.3% of the fund at the later date), 105 dropped (0.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 11.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of DFEM 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 Limited7.08%9.21% Tencent Holdings Limited2.75%1.95%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.3.03%3.72% Alibaba Group Holding Limited1.38%0.95%
SK hynix Inc.2.52%3.19% MEITUAN0.55%0.29%
UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP.0.22%0.47% KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY0.36%0.18%
MPI CORPORATION0.25%0.45% Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.0.66%0.53%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.32%0.51% HDFC BANK LIMITED0.37%0.27%

New: Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd (0.07%), ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.06%), KE Holdings Inc. (0.02%), ASPEN PHARMACARE HOLDINGS LIMITED (0.01%), Guararapes Confeccoes S/A (0.01%), ADANI TOTAL GAS LIMITED (0.01%). Gone: ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.05%), Douzone Bizon Co Ltd (0.02%), ANE (Cayman) Inc (0.02%), AFRICAN RAINBOW MINERALS LIMITED (0.01%), Zinwell Corp (0.01%), Neoenergia S.A. (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC93.66%
unknown unknown5.49%
short-term investment STIV0.85%

97.6% of DFEM 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 $8.54B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

94.36%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0%Futures notional (0)
94.4%Sum, % of net assets

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

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased0.452027-05-28as filed, not named
CallPurchased2.032031-02-03as 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 DFEM (64.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
AQEC AQE Core ETF 65 62.6 19.07% 2026-06-30
VIS Vanguard Industrials Index Fund 382 62.7 30.57% 2026-05-31
COWG Pacer US Large Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF 101 63.7 28.36% 2026-07-31
DVYE iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF 123 63.9 27.92% 2026-07-31
PBW Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF 69 64.2 21.39% 2026-04-30
MGV Vanguard Mega Cap Value Index Fund 125 64.5 28.31% 2026-05-31
IDMO Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF 192 65.2 29.14% 2026-07-31
DIVB iShares Core Dividend ETF 384 65.4 30.3% 2026-07-31
ITOT iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 2,501 66 32.12% 2026-06-30
FLIN Franklin FTSE India ETF 279 66.1 30.17% 2026-06-30

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