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EWY holdings

EWY reports 84 holdings and behaves like 6.3 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 2026-05-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

4.9% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 6.3

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.

84 Positions reported
6.3 Effective holdings
13.3× Concentration multiple
69.83% 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: 7.6% at a quoted market price (level 1), 2 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWY's largest investment is SK Hynix Inc at 30.85% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Samsung Electro Mechanics Co L follow; the three together are 58.15%. Ten companies are 69.83% of the fund; the other 74 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWY behaves like 6.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 6.7 times more concentrated than the median. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 4 positions were added and 4 dropped; 17.3% 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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PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 84 6.3 69.83% 30.93%
2026-02-28 * 84 7.5 65.05% 29.55%
2025-11-30 * 84 11.3 56.26% 23.14%
2025-08-31 * 84 14.7 51.4% 21.71%
2025-05-31 * 85 15.2 51.2% 21.43%
2025-02-28 * 94 14.8 50.76% 22.13%
2024-11-30 * 94 14.8 51.19% 22.59%
2024-08-31 * 100 16.2 49.4% 21.35%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 * 101 14.5 51.79% 22.68%
2024-02-29 * 105 16.9 48.67% 20.96%
2023-11-30 * 108 13.8 50.59% 24.3%
2023-08-31 * 106 16.1 50.34% 21.78%
2023-05-31 * 105 14.2 51.12% 23.95%
2023-02-28 * 104 16.7 48.87% 21.56%
2022-11-30 * 114 14.9 49.83% 23.28%
2022-08-31 * 109 17.6 48.17% 20.83%
2022-05-31 * 113 17.8 48.07% 20.74%
2022-02-28 * 113 16.2 49.83% 21.87%
2021-11-30 * 108 14.1 53.36% 23.72%
2021-08-31 * 105 16.1 51.99% 21.78%
2021-05-31 * 108 15.7 51.33% 22.2%
2021-02-28 * 109 13.7 54.55% 23.88%
2020-11-30 * 109 14.4 52.59% 23.51%
2020-08-31 * 109 17.4 50.86% 20.49%
2020-05-31 * 112 17.4 47.36% 20.89%
2020-02-29 * 111 13.6 50.4% 24.61%
2019-11-30 * 113 16.7 47.02% 21.86%

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
EWY vs EWT 0.3% 2 18.7
EWY vs KWEB 0% 0 19

As filed, collateral included

4.88% collateral

EWY's filing lists 85 positions including 4.88% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 6.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 73.5%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 6.3 with a top ten of 69.83%. 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 84 positions in EWY's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWY.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1SK hynix Inc.30.93%30.9%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.23.93%54.9%
3SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD3.43%58.3%
4SK Square Co., Ltd.3.09%61.4%
5HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY2.44%63.8%
6KB Financial Group Inc.1.40%65.2%
7HYUNDAI MOBIS CO.,LTD1.22%66.4%
8DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.1.21%67.6%
9SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.1.14%68.8%
10SHINHAN FINANCIAL GROUP CO.,LTD1.04%69.8%
11HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.1.02%70.8%
12KIA CORPORATION1.02%71.9%
13SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION1.00%72.9%
14LG ELECTRONICS INC.0.97%73.8%
15Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd.0.91%74.7%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
South Korea 99.95%
United States 0.05%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

246.2%Last twelve months filed
341%Whole series, compounded
31.5%Best month
-20.4%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.61 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWY.json · all funds.

Who borrows EWY'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, $1.1bn was out to 5 borrowers, 4.63% of net assets. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 65% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $727m 65.0%
BofA Securities, Inc. $208m 18.7%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $145m 13.0%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $24m 2.2%
HSBC BANK PLC $13m 1.2%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 4.88% of net assets, 105.5% 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 EWY has filed, with each borrower: EWY.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

83 positions became 83: 4 added (0.5% of the fund at the later date), 4 dropped (0.7% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 17.3%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWY compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
SK hynix Inc.20.09%30.93% Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.29.55%23.93%
SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.96%3.43% HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY3.25%2.44%
SK Square Co., Ltd.2.27%3.09% KIA CORPORATION1.74%1.02%
LG ELECTRONICS INC.0.58%0.97% KB Financial Group Inc.2.09%1.40%
HYUNDAI ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO.,LTD0.01%0.39% Celltrion, Inc.1.38%0.78%
Doosan Corporation0.32%0.54% DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.1.73%1.21%

New: KOSPI2 INX FUT JUN26 (0.25%), Samsung Epis Holdings Co Ltd (0.16%), KOREAN WON (0.08%), BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen (0.05%). Gone: Korea Exchange (Futures Market) (0.22%), Coway Co Ltd (0.17%), Doosan Bobcat Inc (0.15%), LG H&H Co Ltd (0.10%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC94.44%
short-term investment STIV4.70%
preferred equity EP0.54%
derivative DE0.24%
unknown unknown0.08%

7.6% of EWY 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 $24.14B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.82%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.33%Futures notional (1)
99.1%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 EWY (6.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SECT Main Sector Rotation ETF 9 4.5 100% 2026-07-31
FV First Trust Dorsey Wright Focus 5 ETF 6 5 100% 2026-06-30
BUYW Main Buywrite ETF 9 5.1 100% 2026-07-31
SMMD iShares Russell 2500 ETF 518 5.9 44.16% 2026-06-30
MSOS AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF 40 6.2 * 86.6% 2026-06-30
ELM Elm Market Navigator ETF 18 6.7 90.37% 2026-06-30
XLSR State Street(R) US Sector Rotation ETF 29 7.2 88.52% 2026-06-30
EPU iShares MSCI Peru and Global Exposure ETF 34 8 73.44% 2026-05-31
EWS iShares MSCI Singapore ETF 20 8.2 80.68% 2026-05-31
IHE iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF 58 8.7 76.11% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine EWY

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