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Fund · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF · measured from SEC filings

EMXC holdings

EMXC reports 664 holdings and behaves like 19.7 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

1.2% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 19.6

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.

664 Positions reported
19.7 Effective holdings
33.7× Concentration multiple
44.17% 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: 14.3% at a quoted market price (level 1), 29 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EMXC's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 17.94% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 36.05%. Ten companies are 44.17% of the fund; the other 654 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EMXC behaves like 19.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.2 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EMXC has become more concentrated: it behaved like 35.2 at 2019-11-30 and 19.7 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 14 positions were added and 12 dropped; 12.1% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 31.93% of the portfolio, across 29 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, EMXC went from behaving like 35.2 equally weighted positions to 19.7 — 44% fewer, while its top ten went from 33.26% to 44.17% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 664 19.7 44.17% 17.91%
2026-02-28 662 25.1 36.77% 17.17%
2025-11-30 676 32.6 31.53% 15.88%
2025-08-31 653 38.9 28.82% 14.57%
2025-05-31 658 45.5 28.29% 13.16%
2025-02-28 683 42.1 28.22% 13.95%
2024-11-30 690 44.2 27.71% 13.53%
2024-08-31 704 47.8 27.02% 12.61%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 698 51.4 26.51% 11.92%
2024-02-29 706 61.8 24.85% 10.31%
2023-11-30 701 67.8 24.16% 9.31%
2023-08-31 696 70.9 23.62% 9.12%
2023-05-31 697 61.8 25.14% 9.92%
2023-02-28 691 67.8 24.51% 9.44%
2022-11-30 696 71.9 24.57% 8.83%
2022-08-31 693 70.1 24.41% 9.23%
2022-05-31 684 62.9 25.4% 9.8%
2022-02-28 686 57.8 26.3% 10.42%
2021-11-30 685 57.5 25.9% 10.45%
2021-08-31 613 59.7 25.53% 10%
2021-05-31 614 57.7 26.65% 9.9%
2021-02-28 531 23.3 42.08% 15.26%
2020-11-30 526 28.2 38.52% 13.57%
2020-08-31 523 27.8 37.68% 14.35%
2020-05-31 523 33.5 34.97% 13.37%
2020-02-29 521 32.6 34.82% 13.93%
2019-11-30 521 35.2 33.26% 13.72%

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

1.18% collateral

EMXC's filing lists 665 positions including 1.18% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 19.6 effective holdings with a top ten of 44.64%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 19.7 with a top ten of 44.17%. 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 664 positions in EMXC's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EMXC.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited17.91%17.9%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.9.74%27.7%
3SK hynix Inc.8.34%36.0%
4MediaTek Inc.2.04%38.0%
5DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.1.47%39.5%
6HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.1.13%40.6%
7Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.07%41.7%
8HDFC BANK LIMITED0.87%42.6%
9RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED0.83%43.4%
10SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.78%44.2%
11SK Square Co., Ltd.0.75%44.9%
12ICICI BANK LIMITED0.68%45.6%
13HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY0.62%46.2%
14ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.0.62%46.9%
15VALE S.A.0.58%47.4%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 32.31%
South Korea 29.03%
India 13.64%
Brazil 4.28%
South Africa 3.25%
Saudi Arabia 3.04%
Mexico 2.20%
United Arab Emirates 1.35%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

74.4%Last twelve months filed
156%Whole series, compounded
16.2%Best month
-20.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.23 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EMXC.json · all funds.

Who borrows EMXC'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, $283m was out to 10 borrowers, 1.15% of net assets. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 80.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $229m 80.9%
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $35m 12.3%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $5m 1.8%
BofA Securities, Inc. $4m 1.4%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $3m 1.1%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.18% of net assets, 102.7% 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 EMXC has filed, with each borrower: EMXC.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

651 positions became 653: 14 added (0.2% of the fund at the later date), 12 dropped (0.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 12.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EMXC 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.4.52%8.34% HDFC BANK LIMITED1.24%0.87%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.7.93%9.74% ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC0.72%0.47%
MediaTek Inc.1.05%2.04% Gold Fields Limited0.59%0.35%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited17.17%17.91% RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED1.05%0.83%
SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.20%0.78% BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen0.50%0.28%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.98%1.47% ICICI BANK LIMITED0.85%0.68%

New: AIR ARABIA PJSC (0.03%), ADITYA BIRLA CAPITAL LIMITED (0.03%), ASSECO POLAND SPOLKA AKCYJNA (0.03%), L&T Finance Limited (0.03%), Samsung Epis Holdings Co Ltd (0.02%), Vedanta Iron and Steel Ltd (0.02%). Gone: COWAY Co., Ltd. (0.03%), FORD OTOMOTIV SANAYI ANONIM SIRKETI (0.02%), MODIVO SPOLKA AKCYJNA (0.02%), Enel Americas S.A. (0.02%), Americana Restaurants International PLC (0.02%), Doosan Bobcat Inc. (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC96.39%
unknown unknown1.91%
short-term investment STIV1.45%
preferred equity EP0.25%

14.3% of EMXC 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 $24.61B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

97.68%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.31%Futures notional (1)
98%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 EMXC (19.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
FBCG Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF 230 19.4 57.31% 2026-07-31
NORW Global X MSCI Norway ETF 60 19.6 58.96% 2026-07-31
KWEB KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF 33 19.7 60.21% 2026-06-30
FRDM Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF 128 19.7 56.47% 2026-06-30
CNEQ Alger Concentrated Equity ETF 30 19.7 59.33% 2026-06-30
VUG Vanguard Growth Index Fund 151 19.8 60.41% 2026-06-30
VOOG Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund 150 19.8 60.1% 2026-05-31
FDN First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund 42 19.8 60.91% 2026-06-30
NASA Tema Space Innovators ETF 38 19.8 61.02% 2026-05-31
BUG Global X Cybersecurity ETF 31 19.8 59.72% 2026-05-31

Essays that examine EMXC

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