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Fund · iShares MSCI Italy ETF · measured from SEC filings

EWI holdings

EWI reports 28 holdings and behaves like 13 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

1.1% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 12.9

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.

28 Positions reported
13 Effective holdings
2.2× Concentration multiple
71.25% 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: 4.31% at a quoted market price (level 1), 5 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWI's largest investment is Unicredit SPA at 16.26% of net assets. Intesa Sanpaolo SPA and Enel SPA follow; the three together are 41.06%. Ten companies are 71.25% of the fund; the other 18 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWI behaves like 13 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.2 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWI has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (13.5 then, 13 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 2 positions were added and 3 dropped; 5.2% of the weight moved. Italy is the largest country at 89.06% of the portfolio, across 5 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

27

Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EWI went from behaving like 13.5 equally weighted positions to 13 — 4% fewer, while its top ten went from 69.84% to 71.25% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 28 13 71.25% 16.27%
2026-02-28 29 14 69.65% 14.95%
2025-11-30 29 14.5 68.41% 14.26%
2025-08-31 28 14.3 69.42% 14.83%
2025-05-31 27 14.1 69.42% 13.88%
2025-02-28 28 14.5 69.73% 13.3%
2024-11-30 27 15.3 68.59% 11.27%
2024-08-31 26 16.5 67.13% 10.28%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 26 16.7 67.27% 10.19%
2024-02-29 26 16.7 67.02% 10%
2023-11-30 25 15.6 68.52% 11.88%
2023-08-31 24 16.2 67.88% 11.75%
2023-05-31 24 16.7 67.06% 12.11%
2023-02-28 25 14.4 71.82% 12.32%
2022-11-30 25 15.1 71.62% 12.11%
2022-08-31 27 15.9 67.85% 12.64%
2022-05-31 27 15.2 67.65% 14.37%
2022-02-28 26 13.9 70.26% 15.5%
2021-11-30 27 15.6 67.61% 15.01%
2021-08-31 27 14.2 67.88% 17%
2021-05-31 28 13.5 69.22% 18.28%
2021-02-28 27 13.1 70.1% 19.24%
2020-11-30 29 12.5 67.75% 21.49%
2020-08-31 28 11.8 69.7% 22.17%
2020-05-31 27 12.2 68.96% 21.89%
2020-02-29 25 12.3 70.47% 20.34%
2019-11-30 25 13.5 69.84% 17.29%

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

1.15% collateral

EWI's filing lists 29 positions including 1.15% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 12.9 effective holdings with a top ten of 71.23%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 13 with a top ten of 71.25%. 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 28 positions in EWI's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWI.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1UNICREDIT, SOCIETA PER AZIONI16.27%16.3%
2INTESA SANPAOLO SPA12.60%28.9%
3ENEL - SPA12.20%41.1%
4PRYSMIAN S.P.A.6.30%47.4%
5ENI S.P.A.5.21%52.6%
6ASSICURAZIONI GENERALI SOCIETA PER AZIONI4.56%57.1%
7Ferrari N.V.3.90%61.0%
8LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI3.88%64.9%
9BPER BANCA S.P.A.3.29%68.2%
10BANCA MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA S.P.A.3.03%71.3%
11BANCO BPM SOCIETA PER AZIONI2.86%74.1%
12TERNA - RETE ELETTRICA NAZIONALE SOCIETA PER AZIONI2.58%76.7%
13Stellantis N.V.2.57%79.3%
14MONCLER S.P.A.2.49%81.8%
15FINECOBANK BANCA FINECO S.P.A.2.45%84.2%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Italy 90.08%
Netherlands° 7.35%
Luxembourg° 2.04%
Not stated in filing 0.48%
United States 0.06%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

28.4%Last twelve months filed
172%Whole series, compounded
26.3%Best month
-22.8%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWI.json · all funds.

Who borrows EWI'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, $7m was out to 1 borrower, 1.09% of net assets.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $7m 100.0%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.15% of net assets, 105.1% 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 EWI has filed, with each borrower: EWI.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

29 positions became 28: 2 added (0.8% of the fund at the later date), 3 dropped (1.6% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 5.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWI compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
UNICREDIT, SOCIETA PER AZIONI14.95%16.27% Ferrari N.V.5.28%3.90%
PRYSMIAN S.P.A.5.07%6.30% LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI4.36%3.88%
INTESA SANPAOLO SPA12.06%12.60% SNAM S.P.A.2.78%2.39%
ENEL - SPA11.79%12.20% TERNA - RETE ELETTRICA NAZIONALE SOCIETA PER AZIONI2.94%2.58%
TELECOM ITALIA SPA1.85%2.25% MONCLER S.P.A.2.76%2.49%
BANCA MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA S.P.A.2.81%3.03% Davide Campari-Milano N.V.1.09%0.88%

New: ITALGAS S.P.A. (0.76%), FTSE MIB IDX FUT JUN26 (0.01%). Gone: INFRASTRUTTURE WIRELESS ITALIANE S.P.A. (0.96%), NEXI SPA (0.60%), FTSE MIB IDX FUT MAR26 (0.02%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC98.33%
short-term investment STIV1.19%
unknown unknown0.47%
derivative DE0.01%

4.3% of EWI 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 $661M. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.42%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.52%Futures notional (1)
99.9%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 EWI (13). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
EWN iShares MSCI Netherlands ETF 57 12.3 60.63% 2026-05-31
EDEN iShares MSCI Denmark ETF 44 12.4 66.39% 2026-05-31
AKRE Akre Focus ETF 18 12.7 80.84% 2026-07-31
OIH VanEck Oil Services ETF 25 12.8 70.6% 2026-06-30
FDIS Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF 247 13 54.83% 2026-07-31
URA Global X Uranium ETF 66 13.1 63.33% 2026-07-31
LSGR Natixis Loomis Sayles Focused Growth ETF 22 13.2 73.33% 2026-06-30
FTEC Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 282 13.4 62.26% 2026-07-31
TOPT iShares Top 20 U.S. Stocks ETF 23 13.8 69.28% 2026-06-30
SMH VanEck Semiconductor ETF 25 13.9 70.27% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine EWI

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