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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 2026-05-31
76 Positions reported
24.7 Effective holdings
3.1× Concentration multiple
52.68% 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: 0.47% at a quoted market price (level 1), 5 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWU'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

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Between 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.

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

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1HSBC HOLDINGS PLC10.12%10.1%
2ASTRAZENECA PLC9.04%19.2%
3SHELL PLC7.56%26.7%
4ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC4.74%31.5%
5BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C.4.23%35.7%
6UNILEVER PLC3.86%39.5%
7RIO TINTO PLC3.76%43.3%
8BP P.L.C.3.49%46.8%
9GSK PLC3.23%50.0%
10BARCLAYS PLC2.65%52.7%
11BAE SYSTEMS PLC2.56%55.2%
12LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC2.53%57.8%
13NATIONAL GRID PLC2.50%60.3%
14GLENCORE PLC2.38%62.7%
15NATWEST GROUP PLC2.02%64.7%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
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 – 2026-05

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

21.8%Last twelve months filed
97%Whole series, compounded
16.7%Best month
-16.1%Worst month

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

2026-02-28

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-05-31

74 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 increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC9.57%10.12% UNILEVER PLC4.76%3.86%
BP P.L.C.3.03%3.49% ASTRAZENECA PLC9.70%9.04%
RIO TINTO PLC3.33%3.76% RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC1.70%1.25%
SHELL PLC7.21%7.56% 3I GROUP PLC1.32%0.95%
ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC4.50%4.74% GSK PLC3.59%3.23%
GLENCORE PLC2.16%2.38% NATIONAL GRID PLC2.76%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 EC99.62%
unknown unknown0.33%
short-term investment STIV0.03%
derivative DE0.01%

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 2026-05-31

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 $3.45B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.03%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.93%Futures notional (1)
100%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 EWU (24.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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

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