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EFA holdings

EFA reports 689 holdings and behaves like 198.5 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
689 Positions reported
198.5 Effective holdings
3.5× Concentration multiple
13.94% 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: 2.49% at a quoted market price (level 1), 27 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

EFA's largest investment is ASML Holding NV at 2.58% of net assets. HSBC Holdings PLC and Astrazeneca PLC follow; the three together are 5.39%. Ten companies are 13.94% of the fund; the other 679 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EFA behaves like 198.5 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 4.7 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EFA has become more concentrated: it behaved like 267.5 at 2019-10-31 and 211.7 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 21 positions were added and 22 dropped; 7.8% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 22.93% of the portfolio, across 27 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

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, EFA went from behaving like 267.5 equally weighted positions to 211.7 — 21% fewer, while its top ten went from 11.73% to 13.43% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 708 211.7 13.43% 2.6%
2026-01-31 709 211.8 13.37% 2.59%
2025-10-31 699 221.5 12.77% 2.1%
2025-07-31 700 232.4 12.38% 1.62%
2025-04-30 700 222.3 13.1% 1.73%
2025-01-31 730 216.1 13.77% 1.75%
2024-10-31 735 213.9 14.13% 2.18%
2024-07-31 747 199 15.4% 2.54%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 773 198.6 15.51% 2.57%
2024-01-31 790 204 15.34% 2.32%
2023-10-31 799 207.8 15.17% 2.21%
2023-07-31 805 217.5 14.68% 2.1%
2023-04-30 803 212.3 14.9% 2.24%
2023-01-31 804 219 14.46% 2.17%
2022-10-31 806 214.3 14.99% 2.38%
2022-07-31 810 221.7 14.64% 2.4%
2022-04-30 829 220.8 14.68% 2.44%
2022-01-31 833 238.5 13.45% 2.19%
2021-10-31 850 245.8 13.08% 2.2%
2021-07-31 848 251.3 12.93% 2.13%
2021-04-30 883 266 11.97% 2.06%
2021-01-31 882 267.6 12% 2.07%
2020-10-31 905 257.6 12.37% 2.55%
2020-07-31 909 244.9 12.84% 2.64%
2020-04-30 926 239 13.2% 2.6%
2020-01-31 923 265.6 11.66% 2.26%
2019-10-31 934 267.5 11.73% 2.29%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1ASML Holding N.V.2.60%2.6%
2HSBC HOLDINGS PLC1.46%4.1%
3ASTRAZENECA PLC1.36%5.4%
4Roche Holding AG1.33%6.8%
5Novartis AG1.30%8.1%
6Nestle S.A.1.21%9.3%
7SHELL PLC1.20%10.5%
8Siemens Aktiengesellschaft1.05%11.5%
9COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA0.98%12.5%
10Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.0.94%13.4%
11BHP GROUP LIMITED0.93%14.4%
12TOTALENERGIES SE0.86%15.2%
13TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION0.84%16.1%
14Banco Santander, S.A.0.83%16.9%
15SAP SE0.81%17.7%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Japan 23.06%
United Kingdom 14.28%
Switzerland 9.33%
France 9.10%
Germany 9.04%
Australia 6.65%
Netherlands° 6.61%
Spain 3.69%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

25.1%Last twelve months filed
91%Whole series, compounded
15.6%Best month
-13.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.18 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EFA.json · all funds.

Who borrows EFA'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, $315m was out to 12 borrowers. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 39.2% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $124m 39.2%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $55m 17.6%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $45m 14.3%
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP $45m 14.2%
HSBC BANK PLC $14m 4.6%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

708 positions became 707: 21 added (2.2% of the fund at the later date), 22 dropped (2.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EFA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
TOTALENERGIES SE0.67%0.86% NOVO NORDISK A/S0.89%0.63%
COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA0.81%0.98% SAP SE0.97%0.81%
SHELL PLC1.04%1.20% TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION1.00%0.84%
Nokia Oyj0.16%0.31% LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE0.75%0.62%
Siemens Energy AG0.61%0.76% ESSILORLUXOTTICA SA0.43%0.30%
Fujikura Ltd.0.15%0.27% Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft0.45%0.34%

New: Roche Holding AG (1.33%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.19%), SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (0.14%), TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR LTD (0.11%), IBIDEN CO.,LTD. (0.09%), BAWAG Group AG (0.06%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (1.49%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.26%), ASHTEAD GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (0.13%), CYBERARK SOFTWARE LTD. (0.10%), TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (0.10%), JDE Peet's N.V. (0.03%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC98.33%
unknown unknown1.27%
short-term investment STIV0.40%

2.5% of EFA 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 $75.61B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

97.86%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.89%Futures notional (3)
98.8%Sum, % of net assets

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 EFA (198.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SCHM Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF 498 193.5 13.26% 2026-05-31
WWJD Inspire International ETF 201 193.7 7.96% 2026-05-31
FMDE Fidelity Enhanced Mid Cap Core ETF 426 194.5 9.85% 2026-06-30
BTAL AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund 202 198 * 6.11% 2026-06-30
PXF Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 1,019 198.1 14.58% 2026-07-31
DON WisdomTree U.S. Midcap Dividend Fund 294 201.2 10.69% 2026-06-30
SEIS SEI Select Small Cap ETF 352 201.8 11.85% 2026-06-30
SLYG State Street(R) SPDR(R) S & P 600(TM) Small Cap Growth ETF 348 202.9 10.91% 2026-06-30
SCHF Schwab International Equity ETF 1,478 203.6 14.87% 2026-05-31
DBEF Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 723 206.1 13.55% 2026-05-29

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