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ESML holdings

ESML reports 899 holdings and behaves like 349.4 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

5.6% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 167.3

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.

899 Positions reported
349.4 Effective holdings
2.6× Concentration multiple
7.64% 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: 99.91% at a quoted market price (level 1), 14 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

ESML's largest investment is Sandisk Corp DE at 3.6% of net assets. Technipfmc PLC and Akamai Technologies Inc follow; the three together are 4.61%. Ten companies are 7.64% of the fund; the other 889 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, ESML behaves like 349.4 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 8.2 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings ESML has become more concentrated: it behaved like 601.6 at 2019-11-30 and 349.4 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 50 positions were added and 43 dropped; 15.0% of the weight moved.

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, ESML went from behaving like 601.6 equally weighted positions to 349.4 — 42% fewer, while its top ten went from 4.87% to 7.64% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 899 349.4 7.64% 3.6%
2026-02-28 892 491.9 6.95% 1.39%
2025-11-30 915 602.1 4.92% 0.74%
2025-08-31 913 628.1 4.42% 0.54%
2025-05-31 907 583.1 4.83% 0.7%
2025-02-28 907 591.7 4.61% 0.62%
2024-11-30 914 624.5 4.21% 0.54%
2024-08-31 900 609.3 4.15% 0.51%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 916 587.4 4.66% 0.6%
2024-02-29 938 627.4 4.16% 0.57%
2023-11-30 960 641.2 4.09% 0.61%
2023-08-31 972 660.2 3.97% 0.59%
2023-05-31 978 664.6 3.9% 0.48%
2023-02-28 988 679.5 3.81% 0.44%
2022-11-30 1,005 660.4 4.07% 0.49%
2022-08-31 994 677.9 3.93% 0.51%
2022-05-31 1,009 651.8 4.58% 0.66%
2022-02-28 1,032 697.3 3.92% 0.49%
2021-11-30 1,050 713.4 3.88% 0.44%
2021-08-31 1,078 772.7 3.33% 0.41%
2021-05-31 1,090 807.1 3.13% 0.36%
2021-02-28 1,036 754.4 3.57% 0.48%
2020-11-30 1,021 717 4.07% 0.51%
2020-08-31 1,034 737.9 3.83% 0.47%
2020-05-31 888 535.4 5.26% 0.58%
2020-02-29 911 577.3 5.03% 0.72%
2019-11-30 924 601.6 4.87% 0.72%

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

5.59% collateral

ESML's filing lists 900 positions including 5.59% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 167.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 12.82%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 349.4 with a top ten of 7.64%. 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 899 positions in ESML's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: ESML.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1SANDISK CORPORATION3.60%3.6%
2TECHNIPFMC PLC0.56%4.2%
3AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.0.45%4.6%
4US FOODS HOLDING CORP.0.45%5.1%
5ASSURANT, INC.0.45%5.5%
6STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.0.45%6.0%
7OVINTIV INC.0.43%6.4%
8NVENT ELECTRIC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY0.43%6.8%
9XPO, INC.0.42%7.2%
10ATI INC0.40%7.6%
11CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION0.39%8.0%
12JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC0.38%8.4%
13WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC.0.38%8.8%
14FABRINET0.37%9.2%
15MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC.0.37%9.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
United States 93.85%
Bermuda° 1.52%
United Kingdom 0.96%
Ireland° 0.96%
Canada 0.56%
Cayman Islands° 0.55%
Jersey° 0.46%
Puerto Rico° 0.32%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

35.7%Last twelve months filed
121%Whole series, compounded
16.6%Best month
-21.8%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.09 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: ESML.json · all funds.

Who borrows ESML'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, $131m was out to 20 borrowers, 5.46% of net assets. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 21.3% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $28m 21.3%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $23m 17.2%
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $14m 10.4%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $12m 9.3%
BofA Securities, Inc. $11m 8.2%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 5.59% of net assets, 102.4% 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 ESML has filed, with each borrower: ESML.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

892 positions became 899: 50 added (4.2% of the fund at the later date), 43 dropped (5.9% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 15.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of ESML compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
SANDISK CORPORATION1.39%3.60% SUNOCOCORP LLC0.80%0.17%
STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.0.23%0.45% US FOODS HOLDING CORP.0.62%0.45%
MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC.0.23%0.37% ROYAL GOLD, INC.0.46%0.33%
AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.0.33%0.45% OSHKOSH CORPORATION0.33%0.20%
TD SYNNEX CORPORATION0.20%0.33% HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.0.34%0.23%
LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION0.25%0.37% HECLA MINING COMPANY0.30%0.20%

New: DYNATRACE, INC. (0.25%), Essential Utilities, Inc. (0.24%), NUTANIX, INC. (0.23%), THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY (0.19%), BXP, INC. (0.18%), DOCUSIGN, INC. (0.18%). Gone: LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC. (0.84%), Coherent Corp. (0.67%), CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC. (0.58%), FTAI Aviation Ltd, (0.50%), CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (0.41%), EXACT SCIENCES CORPORATION (0.39%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC94.20%
short-term investment STIV5.63%
unknown unknown0.16%

99.9% of ESML 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 $2.41B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.38%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.36%Futures notional (2)
99.7%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 ESML (349.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
GSIE Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta(R) International Equity ETF 658 305.7 10.5% 2026-05-31
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 2,335 310.4 10.77% 2026-07-31
VFMO Vanguard U.s. Momentum Factor ETF 707 318.2 9.53% 2026-05-31
BKMC BNY Mellon US Mid Cap Core Equity ETF 403 325.1 6.4% 2026-07-31
EZM WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Fund 507 330.3 7.77% 2026-06-30
DFSV Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF 995 354.9 6.89% 2026-07-31
IJR iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 655 356.1 7.46% 2026-06-30
BBMC JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 463 358.2 6.66% 2026-07-31
DFSI Dimensional International Sustainability Core 1 ETF 2,809 361.8 9.77% 2026-07-31
FSMD Fidelity Small-Mid Multifactor ETF 588 371.9 8.16% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine ESML

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