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EFAV holdings

EFAV reports 269 holdings and behaves like 139.2 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 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
269 Positions reported
139.2 Effective holdings
1.9× Concentration multiple
14.65% 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: 4.71% at a quoted market price (level 1), 25 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

EFAV's largest investment is ENI SPA at 1.68% of net assets. Totalenergies SE and Equinor ASA follow; the three together are 4.94%. Ten companies are 14.65% of the fund; the other 259 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EFAV behaves like 139.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.3 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EFAV has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (157.2 then, 134.8 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 17 positions were added and 14 dropped; 8.4% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 26.85% of the portfolio, across 25 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, EFAV went from behaving like 157.2 equally weighted positions to 134.8 — 14% fewer, while its top ten went from 13.31% to 15.2% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 260 134.8 15.2% 1.7%
2026-01-31 258 135.2 14.79% 1.64%
2025-10-31 237 134.8 14.41% 1.54%
2025-07-31 235 137.8 14% 1.54%
2025-04-30 234 129.7 14.99% 1.73%
2025-01-31 239 132.1 14.27% 1.53%
2024-10-31 236 133.7 14.92% 1.69%
2024-07-31 241 136.7 14.32% 1.61%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 228 136.6 14.28% 1.5%
2024-01-31 235 140.2 13.95% 1.57%
2023-10-31 225 137 14.28% 1.88%
2023-07-31 232 139.7 14.11% 1.55%
2023-04-30 230 134.5 15.1% 1.97%
2023-01-31 232 137.9 14.27% 1.7%
2022-10-31 238 141.8 14.34% 1.67%
2022-07-31 239 144.5 13.77% 1.58%
2022-04-30 255 140.3 14.74% 1.79%
2022-01-31 256 146.1 13.8% 1.6%
2021-10-31 259 143.6 15.16% 2.01%
2021-07-31 262 145.8 14.85% 1.68%
2021-04-30 260 151.2 14.15% 1.61%
2021-01-31 260 153.4 14.05% 1.54%
2020-10-31 269 153.8 13.9% 1.84%
2020-07-31 273 153.7 13.85% 1.58%
2020-04-30 284 154 14.18% 1.99%
2020-01-31 281 160.5 13.07% 1.65%
2019-10-31 283 157.2 13.31% 1.57%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1ENI S.P.A.1.70%1.7%
2TOTALENERGIES SE1.68%3.4%
3EQUINOR ASA1.60%5.0%
4SHELL PLC1.58%6.6%
5Iberdrola, S.A.1.52%8.1%
6DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD1.48%9.6%
7ORANGE SA1.44%11.0%
8Swisscom AG1.42%12.4%
9Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited1.41%13.8%
10Novartis AG1.37%15.2%
11SECOM CO., LTD.1.35%16.6%
12Zurich Insurance Group AG1.35%17.9%
13BOC HONG KONG (HOLDINGS) LIMITED1.30%19.2%
14Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V.1.25%20.5%
15Sampo Oyj1.15%21.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Japan 26.65%
Switzerland 10.97%
United Kingdom 10.02%
France 6.75%
Australia 5.37%
Hong Kong SAR China 5.29%
Singapore 5.24%
Italy 4.32%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

14.9%Last twelve months filed
53%Whole series, compounded
10.3%Best month
-9.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.14 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EFAV.json · all funds.

Who borrows EFAV'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, $5m was out to 3 borrowers. The largest, SG AMERICAS SECURITIES LLC, held 50.1% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
SG AMERICAS SECURITIES LLC $3m 50.1%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $3m 49.7%
STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY $14,709 0.3%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

257 positions became 260: 17 added (1.2% of the fund at the later date), 14 dropped (1.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EFAV compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
POSTE ITALIANE - SOCIETA PER AZIONI0.07%0.75% HONG KONG DOLLAR0.62%0.01%
EQUINOR ASA1.06%1.60% JAPAN POST BANK Co.,Ltd.1.02%0.64%
ENI S.P.A.1.24%1.70% Deutsche Telekom AG0.95%0.62%
TOTALENERGIES SE1.32%1.68% Novartis AG1.64%1.37%
L'OREAL SA0.06%0.30% RELX PLC0.58%0.32%
SHELL PLC1.35%1.58% CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.0.43%0.17%

New: Roche Holding AG (0.28%), BOLLORE SE (0.22%), Shimadzu Corporation (0.17%), TSURUHA HOLDINGS INC. (0.16%), GJENSIDIGE FORSIKRING ASA (0.08%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.08%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (0.31%), KOBE BUSSAN CO., LTD. (0.31%), SG HOLDINGS CO.,LTD. (0.27%), AIA Group Limited (0.19%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.11%), The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. (0.08%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC98.36%
unknown unknown1.46%
short-term investment STIV0.17%

4.7% of EFAV 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 $5.41B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

97.58%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.97%Futures notional (5)
98.5%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 EFAV (139.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
FNDB Schwab Fundamental U.S. Broad Market ETF 1,639 133.2 20.81% 2026-05-31
VOE Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund 180 133.8 12.62% 2026-06-30
IVOG Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth Index Fund 245 134 15.93% 2026-05-31
DWAS Invesco Dorsey Wright SmallCap Momentum ETF 200 135.4 16.66% 2026-05-31
IEUR iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 1,019 135.9 18.84% 2026-07-31
VGK Vanguard European Stock Index Fund 1,241 139.5 18.6% 2026-07-31
SDVY First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 174 139.6 11.12% 2026-06-30
FFSM Fidelity Fundamental Small-Mid Cap ETF 216 139.8 14.07% 2026-07-31
SDVD FT Vest SMID Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF 174 140.5 10.64% 2026-07-31
FLQM Franklin U.S. Mid Cap Multifactor Index ETF 205 140.7 11.28% 2026-06-30

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