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Fund · iShares Emerging Markets Equity Factor ETF · measured from SEC filings

EMGF holdings

EMGF reports 631 holdings and behaves like 39.3 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

2.9% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 37.9

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.

631 Positions reported
39.3 Effective holdings
16.1× Concentration multiple
35.68% 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: 16.47% at a quoted market price (level 1), 30 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EMGF's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 10.85% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 25.04%. Ten companies are 35.68% of the fund; the other 621 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EMGF behaves like 39.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EMGF has become more concentrated: it behaved like 96.9 at 2019-11-30 and 39.3 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 68 positions were added and 29 dropped; 14.7% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 23.78% of the portfolio, across 30 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 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EMGF went from behaving like 96.9 equally weighted positions to 39.3 — 59% fewer, while its top ten went from 23% to 35.68% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 631 39.3 35.68% 10.83%
2026-02-28 592 47 31.33% 11.03%
2025-11-30 604 54.7 28.4% 10.61%
2025-08-31 570 63.4 26.36% 9.51%
2025-05-31 586 74 24.6% 8.72%
2025-02-28 589 69.1 26.27% 8.92%
2024-11-30 588 73.8 24.55% 9.01%
2024-08-31 608 77.6 24.38% 8.46%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 612 88 22.86% 7.64%
2024-02-29 598 98.4 22.13% 6.78%
2023-11-30 614 100.3 22.63% 6.01%
2023-08-31 593 99.5 23.07% 5.94%
2023-05-31 595 92.5 23.27% 6.52%
2023-02-28 364 94.9 23.65% 5.78%
2022-11-30 285 96.4 23.38% 3.76%
2022-08-31 263 95.5 23.09% 4.37%
2022-05-31 245 93.7 23.48% 4.48%
2022-02-28 246 94.1 23.68% 4.76%
2021-11-30 218 76 27.79% 4.45%
2021-08-31 221 77.1 28.04% 4.23%
2021-05-31 226 82.4 26.85% 4.06%
2021-02-28 246 73.9 29.04% 4.55%
2020-11-30 250 76.6 27.38% 5.39%
2020-08-31 242 71.3 28.07% 6.33%
2020-05-31 240 86.2 25.69% 4.25%
2020-02-29 239 89.9 24.72% 3.95%
2019-11-30 243 96.9 23% 3.66%

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

2.86% collateral

EMGF's filing lists 632 positions including 2.86% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 37.9 effective holdings with a top ten of 37.84%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 39.3 with a top ten of 35.68%. 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 631 positions in EMGF's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EMGF.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited10.83%10.8%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.8.32%19.2%
3SK hynix Inc.5.85%25.0%
4Tencent Holdings Limited2.51%27.5%
5MediaTek Inc.2.15%29.7%
6Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.06%31.7%
7DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.1.31%33.0%
8SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD1.00%34.0%
9CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION0.90%34.9%
10HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.76%35.7%
11HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY0.75%36.4%
12SK Square Co., Ltd.0.69%37.1%
13INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED0.66%37.8%
14ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION0.58%38.4%
15PDD Holdings Inc.0.57%38.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 24.46%
South Korea 24.28%
India 12.02%
China 10.86%
Cayman Islands° 9.12%
Brazil 2.98%
Saudi Arabia 2.18%
South Africa 1.96%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

53.5%Last twelve months filed
128%Whole series, compounded
14.0%Best month
-15.2%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.33 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EMGF.json · all funds.

Who borrows EMGF'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, $52m was out to 15 borrowers, 2.72% of net assets. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 41.7% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $22m 41.7%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $9m 18.1%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $4m 8.5%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $4m 6.9%
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association $3m 5.6%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 2.86% of net assets, 105% 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 EMGF has filed, with each borrower: EMGF.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

592 positions became 631: 68 added (3.4% of the fund at the later date), 29 dropped (1.8% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 14.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EMGF 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.3.05%5.85% Tencent Holdings Limited3.33%2.51%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.6.50%8.32% Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.64%2.06%
MediaTek Inc.1.07%2.15% HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY1.17%0.75%
SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.24%1.00% MIRAE ASSET SECURITIES CO.,LTD.0.59%0.19%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.84%1.31% KIA CORPORATION0.65%0.38%
SK Square Co., Ltd.0.32%0.69% PDD Holdings Inc.0.77%0.57%

New: HonPrecision Inc (0.33%), Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC Ltd (0.16%), China Life Insurance Company Limited (0.15%), Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (0.15%), Winbond Electronics Corporation (0.13%), NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (0.13%). Gone: Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais - CEMIG (0.22%), WOOLWORTHS HOLDINGS LIMITED (0.21%), Synnex Technology International Corp. (0.18%), Hanmi Science Co., Ltd. (0.12%), Colbun S.A. (0.12%), CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (0.10%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC93.94%
short-term investment STIV3.13%
unknown unknown2.92%

16.5% of EMGF 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 $1.92B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

96.78%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.26%Futures notional (1)
97%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 EMGF (39.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
AMOM QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Momentum ETF 51 38.5 37.49% 2026-07-31
EWJV iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF 110 38.8 40.62% 2026-05-31
IEMG iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 2,697 38.9 33.92% 2026-05-31
DUHP Dimensional US High Profitability ETF 150 39.3 41.44% 2026-07-31
SEEM SEI Select Emerging Markets Equity ETF 264 39.3 36.11% 2026-06-30
GII State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Global Infrastructure ETF 78 39.4 38.71% 2026-06-30
QVML Invesco S&P 500 QVM Multi-Factor ETF 448 39.5 41.66% 2026-05-31
XCHG AB US Equity ETF 589 39.5 42.42% 2026-05-31
REET iShares Global REIT ETF 346 39.6 41.71% 2026-07-31
XAR State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Aerospace & Defense ETF 50 39.7 30.39% 2026-06-30

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