Fund · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-07-31Computed 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 2026-07-31EFA'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 2.60% | 2.6% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.46% | 4.1% |
| 3 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.36% | 5.4% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 1.33% | 6.8% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 1.30% | 8.1% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 1.21% | 9.3% |
| 7 | SHELL PLC | 1.20% | 10.5% |
| 8 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.05% | 11.5% |
| 9 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.98% | 12.5% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.94% | 13.4% |
| 11 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.93% | 14.4% |
| 12 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.86% | 15.2% |
| 13 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.84% | 16.1% |
| 14 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.83% | 16.9% |
| 15 | SAP SE | 0.81% | 17.7% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of EFA'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 | 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EFA's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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
2026-07-31The 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.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-04-30708 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.67% | 0.86% | NOVO NORDISK A/S | 0.89% | 0.63% |
| COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.81% | 0.98% | SAP SE | 0.97% | 0.81% |
| SHELL PLC | 1.04% | 1.20% | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 1.00% | 0.84% |
| Nokia Oyj | 0.16% | 0.31% | LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE | 0.75% | 0.62% |
| Siemens Energy AG | 0.61% | 0.76% | ESSILORLUXOTTICA SA | 0.43% | 0.30% |
| Fujikura Ltd. | 0.15% | 0.27% | Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft | 0.45% | 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 EC | 98.33% |
| unknown unknown | 1.27% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.40% |
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 2026-04-30A 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 $75.61B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
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 EFA (198.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
Essays that examine EFA
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