Fund · iShares MSCI Belgium ETF · measured from SEC filings
EWK holdings
EWK reports 43 holdings and behaves like 11.3 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 2026-05-31Computed 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: 3.41% at a quoted market price (level 1), 6 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31EWK's largest investment is Anheuser Busch Inbev SA NV at 21.98% of net assets. Argenx SE and UCB SA follow; the three together are 44.74%. Ten companies are 67.66% of the fund; the other 33 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWK behaves like 11.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.7 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWK has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (12.7 then, 11.3 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 3 positions were added and 1 dropped; 5.0% of the weight moved. BE is the largest country at 84.58% of the portfolio, across 6 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
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EWK went from behaving like 12.7 equally weighted positions to 11.3 — 11% fewer, while its top ten went from 67.03% to 67.66% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 43 | 11.3 | 67.66% | 22.11% |
| 2026-02-28 | 41 | 11.5 | 66.48% | 22.42% |
| 2025-11-30 | 41 | 12 | 66.17% | 18.79% |
| 2025-08-31 | 41 | 11.2 | 68.19% | 21.55% |
| 2025-05-31 | 37 | 11 | 67.82% | 23.7% |
| 2025-02-28 | 39 | 10.8 | 69.52% | 22.35% |
| 2024-11-30 | 37 | 11.5 | 69.03% | 20.66% |
| 2024-08-31 | 37 | 11.5 | 70.71% | 20.07% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 37 | 11.4 | 70.36% | 22.16% |
| 2024-02-29 | 40 | 11.6 | 69.09% | 22.07% |
| 2023-11-30 | 41 | 10.2 | 69.93% | 25.19% |
| 2023-08-31 | 41 | 10.7 | 71.81% | 21.92% |
| 2023-05-31 | 43 | 11.4 | 70.43% | 22.09% |
| 2023-02-28 | 45 | 11.5 | 70.06% | 22.6% |
| 2022-11-30 | 46 | 10.5 | 71.39% | 24.4% |
| 2022-08-31 | 46 | 11.7 | 68.49% | 22.99% |
| 2022-05-31 | 48 | 12.7 | 67.05% | 22.25% |
| 2022-02-28 | 46 | 12 | 67.31% | 23.31% |
| 2021-11-30 | 46 | 12.9 | 68.26% | 20.86% |
| 2021-08-31 | 47 | 14.7 | 66.43% | 18.3% |
| 2021-05-31 | 47 | 12.5 | 67.3% | 22.37% |
| 2021-02-28 | 47 | 14.4 | 67.53% | 18.89% |
| 2020-11-30 | 46 | 11.6 | 68.74% | 23.75% |
| 2020-08-31 | 46 | 10.9 | 69.85% | 24.87% |
| 2020-05-31 | 47 | 15.4 | 65.26% | 17.84% |
| 2020-02-29 | 46 | 15.3 | 65.03% | 17.99% |
| 2019-11-30 | 47 | 12.7 | 67.03% | 22.32% |
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 43 positions in EWK's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWK.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV SA | 22.11% | 22.1% |
| 2 | argenx SE | 13.94% | 36.0% |
| 3 | UCB SA | 8.94% | 45.0% |
| 4 | KBC GROEP NV | 4.45% | 49.4% |
| 5 | AGEAS SA | 4.21% | 53.7% |
| 6 | AEDIFICA NV | 3.01% | 56.7% |
| 7 | GROEP BRUSSEL LAMBERT NV | 2.90% | 59.6% |
| 8 | ACKERMANS & VAN HAAREN NV | 2.86% | 62.4% |
| 9 | ELIA GROUP SA | 2.69% | 65.1% |
| 10 | UMICORE SA | 2.54% | 67.7% |
| 11 | SYENSQO NV | 2.22% | 69.9% |
| 12 | Lotus Bakeries NV | 2.21% | 72.1% |
| 13 | Financiere de Tubize SA | 2.14% | 74.2% |
| 14 | WAREHOUSES DE PAUW NV | 2.08% | 76.3% |
| 15 | D'IETEREN GROUP SA | 1.82% | 78.1% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of EWK's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| Belgium | 84.73% |
| Netherlands° | 13.94% |
| Guernsey° | 0.65% |
| Not stated in filing | 0.58% |
| United States | 0.07% |
| Germany | 0.02% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EWK'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 — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWK.json · all funds.
Who borrows EWK's shares
2026-05-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $166,640 was out to 2 borrowers, 0.16% of net assets. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., held 98.7% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $164,451 | 98.7% |
| HSBC BANK PLC | $2,189 | 1.3% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.17% of net assets, 105.4% 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 EWK has filed, with each borrower: EWK.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-3141 positions became 43: 3 added (0.7% of the fund at the later date), 1 dropped (0.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 5.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEDIFICA NV | 1.93% | 3.01% | COFINIMMO SA | 1.86% | 0.33% |
| argenx SE | 12.93% | 13.94% | WAREHOUSES DE PAUW NV | 2.46% | 2.08% |
| UMICORE SA | 1.90% | 2.54% | ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV SA | 22.42% | 22.11% |
| SYENSQO NV | 1.62% | 2.22% | ACKERMANS & VAN HAAREN NV | 3.14% | 2.86% |
| Melexis NV | 0.85% | 1.20% | SOFINA SA | 2.02% | 1.76% |
| AGEAS SA | 4.04% | 4.22% | GROEP BRUSSEL LAMBERT NV | 3.11% | 2.90% |
New: EURO (0.58%), BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen (0.07%), MICRO EURO STOXX JUN26 (0.02%). Gone: Eurex Deutschland (0.05%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 99.15% |
| unknown unknown | 0.58% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.25% |
| derivative DE | 0.02% |
3.4% of EWK 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 $103M. 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 EWK (11.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IYZ iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF | 25 | 10.9 | 69.49% | 2026-06-30 |
| EWO iShares MSCI Austria ETF | 23 | 10.9 | 77.52% | 2026-05-31 |
| IHF iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF | 63 | 11.1 | 72.12% | 2026-06-30 |
| XLC State Street(R) Communication Services Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF | 26 | 11.2 | 76.18% | 2026-06-30 |
| AMZA InfraCap MLP ETF | 30 | 11.3 | 83.27% | 2026-07-31 |
| ARGT Global X MSCI Argentina ETF | 26 | 11.4 | 68.26% | 2026-07-31 |
| REZ iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF | 40 | 11.4 | 68.42% | 2026-06-30 |
| CGBL Capital Group Core Balanced ETF | 77 | 11.5 | 59.17% | 2026-06-30 |
| SIL Global X Silver Miners ETF | 40 | 11.5 | 74.27% | 2026-07-31 |
| EIRL iShares MSCI Ireland ETF | 30 | 11.5 | 75.9% | 2026-05-31 |
Essays that examine EWK
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