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ESGE holdings

ESGE reports 309 holdings and behaves like 27.7 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 28.0

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.

309 Positions reported
27.7 Effective holdings
11.2× Concentration multiple
39.36% 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: 13.79% at a quoted market price (level 1), 28 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

ESGE's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 14.9% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 28.05%. Ten companies are 39.36% of the fund; the other 299 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, ESGE behaves like 27.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.5 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings ESGE has become more concentrated: it behaved like 76.6 at 2019-11-30 and 27.7 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 37 positions were added and 24 dropped; 13.4% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 26.64% of the portfolio, across 28 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, ESGE went from behaving like 76.6 equally weighted positions to 27.7 — 64% fewer, while its top ten went from 26.08% to 39.36% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 309 27.7 39.36% 15%
2026-02-28 296 34.6 35.32% 13.7%
2025-11-30 294 44.6 31.8% 11.89%
2025-08-31 309 51.9 29.36% 10.69%
2025-05-31 290 56.6 28.15% 10.11%
2025-02-28 294 54.5 28.9% 10.25%
2024-11-30 302 55.7 28.02% 10.55%
2024-08-31 320 53.7 28.79% 10.66%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 307 55.6 28.16% 10.34%
2024-02-29 307 65 26.25% 9.1%
2023-11-30 305 75 24.63% 7.56%
2023-08-31 298 77.7 24.62% 7.18%
2023-05-31 327 72.9 25.18% 7.89%
2023-02-28 333 78.8 24.76% 7.2%
2022-11-30 342 84.1 24.17% 6.89%
2022-08-31 346 81.7 24.51% 7.02%
2022-05-31 331 75.9 25.08% 7.53%
2022-02-28 325 71 25.65% 7.93%
2021-11-30 348 73.9 25.78% 7.45%
2021-08-31 353 76 25.52% 7.07%
2021-05-31 359 73.3 26.52% 6.61%
2021-02-28 340 58 30.78% 7.19%
2020-11-30 356 56.7 31.23% 7.04%
2020-08-31 349 52 31.73% 8.31%
2020-05-31 305 59.4 29.58% 7.09%
2020-02-29 309 67.1 28.24% 6.49%
2019-11-30 309 76.6 26.08% 6.1%

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

1.23% collateral

ESGE's filing lists 310 positions including 1.23% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 28 effective holdings with a top ten of 39.25%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 27.7 with a top ten of 39.36%. 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 309 positions in ESGE's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: ESGE.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited15.01%15.0%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.8.61%23.6%
3SK hynix Inc.4.65%28.3%
4Tencent Holdings Limited2.66%30.9%
5Alibaba Group Holding Limited1.97%32.9%
6MediaTek Inc.1.51%34.4%
7DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.1.44%35.8%
8Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.24%37.1%
9CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION1.22%38.3%
10Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.1.06%39.4%
11SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.99%40.3%
12Lenovo Group Limited0.91%41.3%
13HDFC BANK LIMITED0.86%42.1%
14SK Square Co., Ltd.0.81%42.9%
15United Microelectronics Corporation0.81%43.7%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 26.97%
South Korea 23.02%
Cayman Islands° 11.16%
India 9.87%
China 8.54%
Brazil 3.20%
South Africa 2.75%
Saudi Arabia 2.02%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

53.4%Last twelve months filed
101%Whole series, compounded
16.1%Best month
-15.6%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.29 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: ESGE.json · all funds.

Who borrows ESGE'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, $80m was out to 9 borrowers, 1.13% of net assets. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 25.1% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $20m 25.1%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $17m 21.1%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $15m 18.1%
Macquarie Bank Limited $11m 14.0%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $10m 12.7%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.23% of net assets, 108.5% 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 ESGE has filed, with each borrower: ESGE.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

294 positions became 307: 37 added (2.3% of the fund at the later date), 24 dropped (2.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 13.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of ESGE compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.6.32%8.61% Tencent Holdings Limited3.59%2.66%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited13.70%15.00% Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.53%1.97%
SK hynix Inc.3.74%4.65% Gold Fields Limited0.76%0.47%
MediaTek Inc.0.73%1.51% HDFC BANK LIMITED1.14%0.86%
SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.22%0.99% Woori Financial Group Inc.0.57%0.32%
Lenovo Group Limited0.31%0.91% PDD Holdings Inc.0.36%0.12%

New: BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen (0.33%), CHROMA ATE INC. (0.22%), Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (0.15%), HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (0.15%), SBI CARDS AND PAYMENT SERVICES LIMITED (0.13%), ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI (0.12%). Gone: Enel Americas SA (0.32%), OPAP Holding SA (0.15%), Akbank TAS (0.13%), Commercial International Bank - Egypt (CIB) (0.12%), Aldar Properties PJSC (0.11%), TIM SA/Brazil (0.11%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC96.43%
unknown unknown2.00%
short-term investment STIV1.55%
derivative DE0.02%

13.8% of ESGE 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 $7.08B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

96.92%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
1.18%Futures notional (1)
98.1%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 ESGE (27.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
FLUK Franklin FTSE United Kingdom ETF 95 27.5 49.53% 2026-06-30
VSLU Applied Finance Valuation Large Cap ETF 457 27.6 50.39% 2026-06-30
HDV iShares Core High Dividend ETF 79 27.7 51.6% 2026-07-31
INFL Horizon Kinetics Inflation Beneficiaries ETF 48 27.7 50.05% 2026-06-30
BBRE JPMorgan BetaBuilders MSCI US REIT ETF 107 27.7 49.42% 2026-05-31
ARKK ARK Innovation ETF 47 27.8 47.52% 2026-07-31
EEMA iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF 886 27.8 39.24% 2026-05-31
ARKW ARK Next Generation Internet ETF 44 27.9 47.96% 2026-07-31
UFO Procure Space ETF 65 27.9 48.34% 2026-07-31
PABU iShares Paris-Aligned Climate Optimized MSCI USA ETF 133 28 50.36% 2026-05-31

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