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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 2026-05-31

Read 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.

50 Positions reported
15.3 Effective holdings
3.3× Concentration multiple
65.27% 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: 1.2% at a quoted market price (level 1), 3 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWA'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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 2026-05-31

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1BHP GROUP LIMITED15.76%15.8%
2COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA13.82%29.6%
3WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION6.16%35.8%
4NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED5.74%41.5%
5ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED5.32%46.8%
6WESFARMERS LIMITED4.53%51.3%
7MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED4.33%55.7%
8RIO TINTO LIMITED3.46%59.1%
9GOODMAN GROUP3.24%62.4%
10WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD2.90%65.3%
11CSL LIMITED2.35%67.6%
12TRANSURBAN GROUP2.33%69.9%
13WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED2.15%72.1%
14FORTESCUE LTD1.89%74.0%
15QBE INSURANCE GROUP LIMITED1.71%75.7%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Australia 99.29%
New Zealand 0.64%
United States 0.07%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

17.3%Last twelve months filed
74%Whole series, compounded
15.8%Best month
-25.1%Worst month

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

2025-11-30

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-05-31

50 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 increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
BHP GROUP LIMITED13.84%15.76% NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED7.17%5.74%
MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED3.69%4.33% CSL LIMITED3.41%2.35%
RIO TINTO LIMITED2.96%3.46% WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION6.94%6.16%
GOODMAN GROUP2.82%3.24% NORTHERN STAR RESOURCES LTD2.00%1.29%
WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD2.61%2.90% BRAMBLES LIMITED1.63%1.13%
SANTOS LIMITED1.05%1.27% ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED5.70%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 EC91.61%
unknown unknown8.32%
short-term investment STIV0.07%

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 2026-05-31

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 $1.46B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

91.19%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.59%Futures notional (1)
91.8%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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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