Fund · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF · measured from SEC filings
EWU holdings
EWU reports 76 holdings and behaves like 24.7 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: 0.47% at a quoted market price (level 1), 5 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31EWU's largest investment is HSBC Holdings PLC at 10.06% of net assets. Astrazeneca PLC and Shell PLC follow; the three together are 26.56%. Ten companies are 52.68% of the fund; the other 66 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWU behaves like 24.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.7 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWU has become more concentrated: it behaved like 35.6 at 2019-11-30 and 24.7 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 6 positions were added and 5 dropped; 5.8% 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, EWU went from behaving like 35.6 equally weighted positions to 24.7 — 31% fewer, while its top ten went from 45.44% to 52.68% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 76 | 24.7 | 52.68% | 10.12% |
| 2026-02-28 | 75 | 24.9 | 52.51% | 9.7% |
| 2025-11-30 | 75 | 26.2 | 50.64% | 9.77% |
| 2025-08-31 | 76 | 27.4 | 49.59% | 8.68% |
| 2025-05-31 | 76 | 28.4 | 48.35% | 8.29% |
| 2025-02-28 | 81 | 27.2 | 49.07% | 8.97% |
| 2024-11-30 | 81 | 28.7 | 47.74% | 8.49% |
| 2024-08-31 | 82 | 26.5 | 49.83% | 10.26% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 87 | 27.5 | 49.51% | 9.29% |
| 2024-02-29 | 86 | 29.2 | 48.91% | 8.62% |
| 2023-11-30 | 85 | 27.4 | 50.48% | 9.41% |
| 2023-08-31 | 84 | 26.2 | 52.03% | 9.32% |
| 2023-05-31 | 81 | 25.7 | 51.95% | 10.18% |
| 2023-02-28 | 83 | 25.9 | 52.78% | 9.61% |
| 2022-11-30 | 85 | 25.9 | 53% | 9.62% |
| 2022-08-31 | 84 | 25.9 | 52.73% | 9.63% |
| 2022-05-31 | 84 | 26.6 | 52.7% | 9.52% |
| 2022-02-28 | 84 | 29.8 | 49.65% | 8.19% |
| 2021-11-30 | 87 | 36.4 | 43.37% | 7.15% |
| 2021-08-31 | 89 | 37.3 | 42.39% | 7.3% |
| 2021-05-31 | 90 | 37.7 | 42.4% | 6.29% |
| 2021-02-28 | 90 | 38 | 42.76% | 6.01% |
| 2020-11-30 | 90 | 34.9 | 44.59% | 7.64% |
| 2020-08-31 | 88 | 36.5 | 43.53% | 7.64% |
| 2020-05-31 | 99 | 34.5 | 45.51% | 7.62% |
| 2020-02-29 | 97 | 36.8 | 44% | 6.56% |
| 2019-11-30 | 99 | 35.6 | 45.44% | 6.45% |
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 76 positions in EWU's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWU.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 10.12% | 10.1% |
| 2 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 9.04% | 19.2% |
| 3 | SHELL PLC | 7.56% | 26.7% |
| 4 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 4.74% | 31.5% |
| 5 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. | 4.23% | 35.7% |
| 6 | UNILEVER PLC | 3.86% | 39.5% |
| 7 | RIO TINTO PLC | 3.76% | 43.3% |
| 8 | BP P.L.C. | 3.49% | 46.8% |
| 9 | GSK PLC | 3.23% | 50.0% |
| 10 | BARCLAYS PLC | 2.65% | 52.7% |
| 11 | BAE SYSTEMS PLC | 2.56% | 55.2% |
| 12 | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 2.53% | 57.8% |
| 13 | NATIONAL GRID PLC | 2.50% | 60.3% |
| 14 | GLENCORE PLC | 2.38% | 62.7% |
| 15 | NATWEST GROUP PLC | 2.02% | 64.7% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of EWU's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 94.78% |
| Jersey° | 3.64% |
| United States | 1.05% |
| Switzerland | 0.39% |
| Isle of Man | 0.14% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EWU'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 0.25 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWU.json · all funds.
Who borrows EWU's shares
2026-02-28The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-02-28, $4m was out to 1 borrower, 0.12% of net assets.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $4m | 100.0% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.13% of net assets, 105.2% 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 EWU has filed, with each borrower: EWU.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-3174 positions became 75: 6 added (1.8% of the fund at the later date), 5 dropped (1.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 5.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWU 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 9.57% | 10.12% | UNILEVER PLC | 4.76% | 3.86% |
| BP P.L.C. | 3.03% | 3.49% | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 9.70% | 9.04% |
| RIO TINTO PLC | 3.33% | 3.76% | RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC | 1.70% | 1.25% |
| SHELL PLC | 7.21% | 7.56% | 3I GROUP PLC | 1.32% | 0.95% |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 4.50% | 4.74% | GSK PLC | 3.59% | 3.23% |
| GLENCORE PLC | 2.16% | 2.38% | NATIONAL GRID PLC | 2.76% | 2.50% |
New: SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (1.02%), GREAT BRITISH POUND (0.33%), Wise Group PLC (0.26%), AIRTEL AFRICA PLC (0.14%), FTSE 100 IDX FUT JUN26 (0.01%), EURO (0.00%). Gone: Ashtead Group PLC (0.90%), Wise PLC (0.23%), DCC PLC (0.18%), Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (0.09%), ICE Futures Europe - Financial Products Division (0.05%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 99.62% |
| unknown unknown | 0.33% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.03% |
| derivative DE | 0.01% |
0.5% of EWU 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 $3.45B. 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 EWU (24.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRFK Pacer Data and Digital Revolution ETF | 95 | 24.6 | 53.02% | 2026-07-31 |
| AIS VistaShares Artificial Intelligence Supercycle ETF | 55 | 24.6 | 49.33% | 2026-05-31 |
| ILCG iShares Morningstar Growth ETF | 327 | 24.7 | 49.31% | 2026-07-31 |
| NULG Nuveen ESG Large-Cap Growth ETF | 70 | 24.7 | 44.04% | 2026-07-31 |
| TMFC Motley Fool 100 Index ETF | 102 | 24.7 | 55.19% | 2026-05-31 |
| CGW Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF | 66 | 24.8 | 55.36% | 2026-07-31 |
| ROM ProShares Ultra Technology | 89 | 24.9 * | 56.96% | 2026-05-31 |
| QFLR Innovator Nasdaq-100 Managed Floor ETF | 44 | 25 | 52.21% | 2026-07-31 |
| SPMO Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF | 100 | 25.2 | 52.61% | 2026-05-31 |
| PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF | 62 | 25.2 | 54.7% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine EWU
0Mentions are detected across the full text of every article, so an appearance may be a passing comparison rather than the subject. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell — see the disclaimer.