Fund · iShares MSCI Australia ETF · measured from SEC filings
EWA holdings
EWA reports 50 holdings and behaves like 15.3 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 2026-05-31Read this figure with the following in mind
8.3% of net assets carries no asset category in the filing
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.
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: 1.2% at a quoted market price (level 1), 3 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31EWA's largest investment is BHP Group Ltd at 15.69% of net assets. Commonwealth Bank OF Australia and Westpac Banking Corp follow; the three together are 35.59%. Ten companies are 65.27% of the fund; the other 40 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWA behaves like 15.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.8 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWA has become more concentrated: it behaved like 25.1 at 2019-11-30 and 15.3 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 1 positions were added and 1 dropped; 6.2% 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
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EWA went from behaving like 25.1 equally weighted positions to 15.3 — 39% fewer, while its top ten went from 54.16% to 65.27% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 50 | 15.3 | 65.27% | 15.76% |
| 2026-02-28 | 50 | 16 | 64.8% | 13.94% |
| 2025-11-30 | 49 | 18.6 | 61.57% | 13.24% |
| 2025-08-31 | 49 | 18.4 | 62.07% | 13.89% |
| 2025-05-31 | 50 | 17.7 | 62.33% | 15.23% |
| 2025-02-28 | 55 | 19 | 60.83% | 13.76% |
| 2024-11-30 | 56 | 19.1 | 61.17% | 13.41% |
| 2024-08-31 | 60 | 19.8 | 60.97% | 12.1% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 59 | 19.9 | 59.88% | 12.33% |
| 2024-02-29 | 60 | 20.3 | 59.47% | 12.1% |
| 2023-11-30 | 60 | 19.1 | 59.64% | 13.94% |
| 2023-08-31 | 61 | 20.5 | 58.41% | 12.97% |
| 2023-05-31 | 60 | 20.4 | 58.1% | 12.72% |
| 2023-02-28 | 60 | 19.7 | 59.58% | 13.25% |
| 2022-11-30 | 61 | 18.7 | 61.32% | 13.41% |
| 2022-08-31 | 62 | 19.8 | 60.14% | 12.48% |
| 2022-05-31 | 63 | 19.5 | 59.55% | 13.12% |
| 2022-02-28 | 63 | 18.9 | 59.97% | 14.43% |
| 2021-11-30 | 66 | 24.1 | 55.72% | 10.38% |
| 2021-08-31 | 67 | 23.2 | 56.48% | 10.69% |
| 2021-05-31 | 66 | 22.1 | 58.23% | 11.13% |
| 2021-02-28 | 67 | 22.8 | 57.54% | 9.78% |
| 2020-11-30 | 67 | 23.7 | 55.62% | 9.92% |
| 2020-08-31 | 67 | 23.9 | 54.88% | 9.91% |
| 2020-05-31 | 72 | 24 | 54.9% | 10.18% |
| 2020-02-29 | 71 | 23 | 56.71% | 10.42% |
| 2019-11-30 | 72 | 25.1 | 54.16% | 9.7% |
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 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 50 positions in EWA's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWA.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.76% | 15.8% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 13.82% | 29.6% |
| 3 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 6.16% | 35.8% |
| 4 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.74% | 41.5% |
| 5 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.32% | 46.8% |
| 6 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.53% | 51.3% |
| 7 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.33% | 55.7% |
| 8 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.46% | 59.1% |
| 9 | GOODMAN GROUP | 3.24% | 62.4% |
| 10 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.90% | 65.3% |
| 11 | CSL LIMITED | 2.35% | 67.6% |
| 12 | TRANSURBAN GROUP | 2.33% | 69.9% |
| 13 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.15% | 72.1% |
| 14 | FORTESCUE LTD | 1.89% | 74.0% |
| 15 | QBE INSURANCE GROUP LIMITED | 1.71% | 75.7% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of EWA's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| Australia | 99.29% |
| New Zealand | 0.64% |
| United States | 0.07% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EWA'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 0.24 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWA.json · all funds.
Who borrows EWA's shares
2025-11-30The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2025-11-30, $829,130 was out to 1 borrower, 0.06% of net assets.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $829,130 | 100.0% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.07% of net assets, 111% 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 EWA has filed, with each borrower: EWA.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-3150 positions became 50: 1 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 1 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 6.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHP GROUP LIMITED | 13.84% | 15.76% | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 7.17% | 5.74% |
| MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 3.69% | 4.33% | CSL LIMITED | 3.41% | 2.35% |
| RIO TINTO LIMITED | 2.96% | 3.46% | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 6.94% | 6.16% |
| GOODMAN GROUP | 2.82% | 3.24% | NORTHERN STAR RESOURCES LTD | 2.00% | 1.29% |
| WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.61% | 2.90% | BRAMBLES LIMITED | 1.63% | 1.13% |
| SANTOS LIMITED | 1.05% | 1.27% | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.70% | 5.32% |
New: SPI 200 FUTURES JUN26 (0.00%). Gone: SPI 200 FUTURES MAR26 (0.02%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 91.61% |
| unknown unknown | 8.32% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.07% |
1.2% of EWA 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 2026-05-31A 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 $1.46B. 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 EWA (15.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTES Virtus Reaves Utilities ETF | 18 | 15 | 69.18% | 2026-07-31 |
| GREK Global X MSCI Greece ETF | 33 | 15 | 70.7% | 2026-07-31 |
| VGT Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund | 321 | 15.1 | 59.38% | 2026-05-31 |
| QQH HCM Defender 100 Index ETF | 100 | 15.1 | 62.71% | 2026-06-30 |
| SLVP iShares MSCI Global Silver and Metals Miners ETF | 47 | 15.2 | 69.95% | 2026-05-31 |
| IYK iShares U.S. Consumer Staples ETF | 55 | 15.4 | 66.35% | 2026-07-31 |
| IYW iShares U.S. Technology ETF | 150 | 16 | 65.25% | 2026-07-31 |
| DTCR Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF | 25 | 16.1 | 66.32% | 2026-05-31 |
| FAS Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares | 88 | 16.2 * | 59.29% | 2026-07-31 |
| XLK State Street(R) Technology Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF | 77 | 16.3 | 64.47% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine EWA
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