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Fund · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · measured from SEC filings

EWT holdings

EWT reports 87 holdings and behaves like 17.9 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

10.4% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 15.0

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.

87 Positions reported
17.9 Effective holdings
4.8× Concentration multiple
51.57% 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: 13.38% at a quoted market price (level 1), 3 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWT's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 19.33% of net assets. Mediatek Inc and Delta Electronics Inc follow; the three together are 32.53%. Ten companies are 51.57% of the fund; the other 77 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWT behaves like 17.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.4 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWT has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (15.8 then, 17.9 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 1 positions were added and 0 dropped; 12.6% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 87.48% of the portfolio, across 3 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

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Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EWT went from behaving like 15.8 equally weighted positions to 17.9 — 13% more, while its top ten went from 46.24% to 51.57% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 87 17.9 51.57% 19.34%
2026-02-28 86 16.8 45.99% 21.66%
2025-11-30 91 16.4 46.09% 22.01%
2025-08-31 89 16.1 46.45% 22.24%
2025-05-31 90 16.1 45.09% 22.47%
2025-02-28 90 17.2 45.2% 21.35%
2024-11-30 90 15.8 46.59% 22.51%
2024-08-31 90 14.1 48.07% 24.22%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 91 13.9 48.03% 24.4%
2024-02-29 93 13.9 46.16% 24.67%
2023-11-30 93 16.1 44.38% 22.61%
2023-08-31 93 16 44.71% 22.72%
2023-05-31 91 16.2 43.83% 22.59%
2023-02-28 90 17 43.21% 21.82%
2022-11-30 90 16.7 44.12% 21.98%
2022-08-31 89 15.5 44.85% 23.04%
2022-05-31 89 18 42.96% 20.93%
2022-02-28 88 17 43.6% 21.65%
2021-11-30 88 16.2 44.21% 22.43%
2021-08-31 90 16.5 44.17% 22.27%
2021-05-31 90 16.5 43.97% 22.19%
2021-02-28 88 14.9 46.1% 23.51%
2020-11-30 89 15 45.23% 23.62%
2020-08-31 89 10.9 49.27% 28.65%
2020-05-31 89 16.6 45.32% 21.98%
2020-02-29 90 15.7 45.5% 22.81%
2019-11-30 90 15.8 46.24% 22.59%

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.

Compared with, in the essays

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Overlap with other funds

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Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

WithOverlapSharedCombined effective
EWT vs EWY 0.3% 2 18.7
EWT vs KWEB 0% 0 36.9

As filed, collateral included

10.42% collateral

EWT's filing lists 88 positions including 10.42% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 15 effective holdings with a top ten of 59.82%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 17.9 with a top ten of 51.57%. 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 87 positions in EWT's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWT.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited19.34%19.3%
2MediaTek Inc.7.56%26.9%
3DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.5.64%32.5%
4HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.4.09%36.6%
5ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.2.86%39.5%
6ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD.2.75%42.2%
7UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP.2.72%45.0%
8United Microelectronics Corporation2.25%47.2%
9ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION2.21%49.4%
10YAGEO CORPORATION2.15%51.6%
11Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.1.57%53.1%
12CHROMA ATE INC.1.52%54.7%
13CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd.1.46%56.1%
14Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd.1.35%57.5%
15QUANTA COMPUTER INC.1.30%58.8%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 96.60%
Cayman Islands° 3.37%
United States 0.03%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

103.3%Last twelve months filed
352%Whole series, compounded
26.0%Best month
-14.0%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.45 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWT.json · all funds.

Who borrows EWT'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, $1.0bn was out to 7 borrowers, 9.62% of net assets. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC, held 45.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $475m 45.9%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED $190m 18.4%
Merrill Lynch International $106m 10.3%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $100m 9.7%
Macquarie Bank Limited $80m 7.8%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 10.42% of net assets, 108.4% 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 EWT has filed, with each borrower: EWT.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

85 positions became 86: 1 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 12.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWT compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
MediaTek Inc.4.56%7.56% Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited21.66%19.34%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.4.42%5.64% NEW TAIWAN DOLLAR1.36%0.28%
UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP.1.65%2.72% HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.4.55%4.09%
ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD.1.74%2.75% TS Financial Holding Co., Ltd.1.39%0.96%
YAGEO CORPORATION1.15%2.15% E. SUN FINANCIAL HOLDING COMPANY, LTD.1.04%0.69%
United Microelectronics Corporation1.38%2.25% CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd.1.79%1.46%

New: FTSE TAIWAN INDEX JUN26 (0.00%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC90.28%
short-term investment STIV9.47%
unknown unknown0.25%

13.4% of EWT 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 $10.75B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.65%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.27%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

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of EWT (17.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
EWW iShares MSCI Mexico ETF 42 17.6 63.06% 2026-05-31
MGK Vanguard Mega Cap Growth Index Fund 59 17.9 63.6% 2026-06-30
SOXQ Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF 31 17.9 63.38% 2026-05-31
FSTA Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF 95 17.9 61.72% 2026-07-31
UDOW ProShares UltraPro Dow30 44 17.9 * 53.03% 2026-05-31
FFLG Fidelity Fundamental Large Cap Growth ETF 97 18 55.78% 2026-07-31
AIPI REX AI Equity Premium Income ETF 25 18.2 61.05% 2026-05-31
RAA SMI 3Fourteen REAL Asset Allocation ETF 183 18.4 60.33% 2026-06-30
KBWB Invesco KBW Bank ETF 26 18.5 61.55% 2026-05-31
IYH iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF 102 18.6 59.09% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine EWT

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