Fund · iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 4.71% at a quoted market price (level 1), 25 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31EFAV'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ENI S.P.A. | 1.70% | 1.7% |
| 2 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 1.68% | 3.4% |
| 3 | EQUINOR ASA | 1.60% | 5.0% |
| 4 | SHELL PLC | 1.58% | 6.6% |
| 5 | Iberdrola, S.A. | 1.52% | 8.1% |
| 6 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 1.48% | 9.6% |
| 7 | ORANGE SA | 1.44% | 11.0% |
| 8 | Swisscom AG | 1.42% | 12.4% |
| 9 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited | 1.41% | 13.8% |
| 10 | Novartis AG | 1.37% | 15.2% |
| 11 | SECOM CO., LTD. | 1.35% | 16.6% |
| 12 | Zurich Insurance Group AG | 1.35% | 17.9% |
| 13 | BOC HONG KONG (HOLDINGS) LIMITED | 1.30% | 19.2% |
| 14 | Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. | 1.25% | 20.5% |
| 15 | Sampo Oyj | 1.15% | 21.6% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of EFAV'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 | 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EFAV'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 0.14 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
2026-07-31The 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.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-04-30257 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POSTE ITALIANE - SOCIETA PER AZIONI | 0.07% | 0.75% | HONG KONG DOLLAR | 0.62% | 0.01% |
| EQUINOR ASA | 1.06% | 1.60% | JAPAN POST BANK Co.,Ltd. | 1.02% | 0.64% |
| ENI S.P.A. | 1.24% | 1.70% | Deutsche Telekom AG | 0.95% | 0.62% |
| TOTALENERGIES SE | 1.32% | 1.68% | Novartis AG | 1.64% | 1.37% |
| L'OREAL SA | 0.06% | 0.30% | RELX PLC | 0.58% | 0.32% |
| SHELL PLC | 1.35% | 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 EC | 98.36% |
| unknown unknown | 1.46% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.17% |
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 2026-04-30A 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 $5.41B. 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 EFAV (139.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
Essays that examine EFAV
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