257 essays 1,087 funds measured independent · not paid by any fund or issuer we cover

Fund · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · measured from SEC filings

EEM holdings

EEM reports 1,247 holdings and behaves like 29.9 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

2.5% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 29.2

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.

1,247 Positions reported
29.9 Effective holdings
41.8× Concentration multiple
38.72% 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: 14.39% at a quoted market price (level 1), 34 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EEM's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 14.26% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 28.67%. Ten companies are 38.72% of the fund; the other 1,237 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EEM behaves like 29.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EEM has become more concentrated: it behaved like 96.4 at 2019-11-30 and 29.9 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 51 positions were added and 32 dropped; 12.1% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 25.07% of the portfolio, across 34 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 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EEM went from behaving like 96.4 equally weighted positions to 29.9 — 69% fewer, while its top ten went from 24.07% to 38.72% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 1,247 29.9 38.72% 14.23%
2026-02-28 1,228 39 33.03% 13.11%
2025-11-30 1,241 50.8 30.02% 11.28%
2025-08-31 1,198 58.9 27.95% 10.09%
2025-05-31 1,192 66 26.73% 9.47%
2025-02-28 1,206 62.2 27.71% 9.65%
2024-11-30 1,213 66.5 25.84% 9.83%
2024-08-31 1,240 68.2 25.63% 9.55%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 1,241 75.8 25.09% 8.67%
2024-02-29 1,278 90.9 23.06% 7.66%
2023-11-30 1,258 96.1 23.05% 6.67%
2023-08-31 1,240 100.9 22.74% 6.4%
2023-05-31 1,230 93.2 23.36% 7.01%
2023-02-28 1,226 99.5 23.14% 6.41%
2022-11-30 1,241 105.7 22.96% 6.14%
2022-08-31 1,235 102.6 23.15% 6.26%
2022-05-31 1,239 95 23.74% 6.78%
2022-02-28 1,244 89.4 24.25% 7.09%
2021-11-30 1,246 88.5 24.52% 6.85%
2021-08-31 1,232 87.1 24.84% 6.63%
2021-05-31 1,250 83.8 25.71% 6.14%
2021-02-28 1,195 64.9 29.65% 6.61%
2020-11-30 1,227 65.4 29.58% 6.88%
2020-08-31 1,207 58.9 30.6% 8.3%
2020-05-31 1,227 74.7 27.24% 6.78%
2020-02-29 1,217 82.6 26.01% 6.26%
2019-11-30 1,224 96.4 24.07% 5.84%

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

2.49% collateral

EEM's filing lists 1,248 positions including 2.49% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 29.2 effective holdings with a top ten of 40.49%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 29.9 with a top ten of 38.72%. 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 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 1,247 positions in EEM's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EEM.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited14.23%14.2%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.7.75%22.0%
3SK hynix Inc.6.63%28.6%
4Tencent Holdings Limited2.70%31.3%
5Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.07%33.4%
6MediaTek Inc.1.62%35.0%
7DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.1.17%36.2%
8HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.90%37.1%
9Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.0.85%37.9%
10CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION0.81%38.7%
11HDFC BANK LIMITED0.70%39.4%
12RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED0.66%40.1%
13SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.62%40.7%
14SK Square Co., Ltd.0.60%41.3%
15ICICI BANK LIMITED0.55%41.8%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 25.69%
South Korea 23.05%
India 10.83%
Cayman Islands° 10.72%
China 9.11%
Brazil 3.42%
South Africa 2.57%
Saudi Arabia 2.42%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

53.9%Last twelve months filed
98%Whole series, compounded
16.0%Best month
-15.4%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.32 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EEM.json · all funds.

Who borrows EEM's shares

2026-05-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $688m was out to 19 borrowers, 2.27% of net assets. The largest, BofA Securities, Inc., held 27.6% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BofA Securities, Inc. $190m 27.6%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $127m 18.4%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $66m 9.6%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $56m 8.1%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED $50m 7.3%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 2.49% of net assets, 109.8% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter EEM has filed, with each borrower: EEM.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

1,217 positions became 1,236: 51 added (0.5% of the fund at the later date), 32 dropped (0.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 12.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EEM compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
SK hynix Inc.3.45%6.63% Tencent Holdings Limited3.60%2.70%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.6.05%7.75% Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.65%2.07%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited13.11%14.23% BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen0.63%0.34%
MediaTek Inc.0.80%1.62% HDFC BANK LIMITED0.93%0.70%
SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.15%0.62% ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC0.55%0.38%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.75%1.17% Gold Fields Limited0.45%0.27%

New: Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (0.09%), SenseTime Group Inc (0.04%), ASSECO POLAND SPOLKA AKCYJNA (0.02%), AIR ARABIA PJSC (0.02%), ADITYA BIRLA CAPITAL LIMITED (0.02%), L&T Finance Limited (0.02%). Gone: COWAY Co., Ltd. (0.03%), DONGFENG MOTOR GROUP COMPANY LIMITED (0.02%), FORD OTOMOTIV SANAYI ANONIM SIRKETI (0.02%), Two Point Zero Group P.J.S.C (0.01%), MODIVO SPOLKA AKCYJNA (0.01%), Enel Americas S.A. (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC94.76%
short-term investment STIV2.76%
unknown unknown2.28%
preferred equity EP0.19%
derivative DE0.01%

14.4% of EEM 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 2026-05-31

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 $30.33B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

97.34%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.36%Futures notional (1)
97.7%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 EEM (29.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
JPEF JPMorgan Equity Focus ETF 40 29.5 43.34% 2026-06-30
FNCL Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF 385 29.6 48.45% 2026-07-31
WCMI First Trust WCM International Equity ETF 43 29.7 * 45.35% 2026-06-30
SFGV Sequoia Global Value ETF 522 29.7 45.83% 2026-05-29
ICLN iShares Global Clean Energy ETF 126 29.8 48.94% 2026-07-31
RECS Columbia Research Enhanced Core ETF 360 30 40.4% 2026-07-31
FXN First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund 40 30.1 44.38% 2026-07-31
SNPE Xtrackers S&P 500 Scored & Screened ETF 333 30.2 41.46% 2026-05-29
FEZ State Street(R) SPDR(R) EURO STOXX 50(R) ETF 52 30.6 42.2% 2026-06-30
KXI iShares Global Consumer Staples ETF 107 30.6 49.55% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine EEM

0

Mentions are detected across the full text of every article, so an appearance may be a passing comparison rather than the subject. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell — see the disclaimer.