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EWZ holdings

EWZ reports 48 holdings and behaves like 20 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
48 Positions reported
20 Effective holdings
2.4× Concentration multiple
59.28% 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: 99.79% at a quoted market price (level 1), 4 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWZ's largest investment is Vale SA at 11.5% of net assets. NU Holdings Ltd Cayman Islands and Itau Unibanco Holding SA follow; the three together are 28.68%. Ten companies are 59.28% of the fund; the other 38 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWZ behaves like 20 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.1 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWZ has become more concentrated: it behaved like 25.2 at 2019-11-30 and 20 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 2 positions were added and 1 dropped; 4.5% of the weight moved. Brazil is the largest country at 88.54% of the portfolio, across 4 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, EWZ went from behaving like 25.2 equally weighted positions to 20 — 21% fewer, while its top ten went from 53.28% to 59.28% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 48 20 59.28% 11.62%
2026-02-28 48 20.6 57.66% 11.26%
2025-11-30 47 20 57.76% 12.5%
2025-08-31 46 20.4 57.29% 11.95%
2025-05-31 44 22.2 56.7% 9.64%
2025-02-28 52 21.7 57.19% 9.44%
2024-11-30 50 20.8 58.34% 10.08%
2024-08-31 52 21.3 57.24% 10.18%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 51 20 57.74% 11.93%
2024-02-29 51 20.6 56.62% 11.7%
2023-11-30 50 19.8 57.61% 13.61%
2023-08-31 49 20.6 57.48% 13.07%
2023-05-31 52 19.8 57.95% 14.55%
2023-02-28 51 15.6 59.9% 19.44%
2022-11-30 52 16.2 60.06% 18.85%
2022-08-31 50 18.9 58.36% 14.8%
2022-05-31 51 15.7 59.67% 19.17%
2022-02-28 53 14.9 60.71% 20.09%
2021-11-30 56 19.7 56.8% 15.37%
2021-08-31 55 17.6 56.98% 18.01%
2021-05-31 56 16.9 56.79% 19.01%
2021-02-28 56 18.5 56.84% 17.49%
2020-11-30 58 21 55.88% 14.59%
2020-08-31 58 24.6 52.88% 11.97%
2020-05-31 58 25.6 51.87% 10.96%
2020-02-29 56 27.4 50.33% 8.69%
2019-11-30 57 25.2 53.28% 9.28%

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 48 positions in EWZ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWZ.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1VALE S.A.11.62%11.6%
2Nu Holdings Ltd.8.79%20.4%
3Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.8.56%29.0%
4Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)7.36%36.3%
5Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)6.76%43.1%
6B3 S.A - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcao3.61%46.7%
7Banco Bradesco S.A.3.37%50.1%
8AMBEV S.A.3.23%53.3%
9WEG S.A.3.08%56.4%
10Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - SABESP2.90%59.3%
11BANCO BTG PACTUAL S.A.2.70%62.0%
12AXIA Energia S.A.2.66%64.6%
13ITAUSA S.A.2.64%67.3%
14PRIO S.A.2.18%69.5%
15EMBRAER S.A.2.18%71.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Brazil 88.54%
Cayman Islands° 10.37%
Netherlands° 1.03%
United States 0.06%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

39.5%Last twelve months filed
35%Whole series, compounded
23.3%Best month
-38.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.24 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWZ.json · all funds.

Who borrows EWZ'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, $285,441 was out to 1 borrower, 0.00% of net assets.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BofA Securities, Inc. $285,441 100.0%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter EWZ has filed, with each borrower: EWZ.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

47 positions became 48: 2 added (0.3% of the fund at the later date), 1 dropped (0.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 4.5%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWZ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)5.61%6.76% Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.9.08%8.56%
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)6.25%7.36% Nu Holdings Ltd.9.25%8.79%
PRIO S.A.1.73%2.18% SUZANO S.A.1.59%1.26%
VALE S.A.11.26%11.62% EMBRAER S.A.2.49%2.18%
AMBEV S.A.2.93%3.23% Banco do Brasil S.A1.79%1.48%
GERDAU S.A.1.11%1.32% Banco Bradesco S.A.3.65%3.37%

New: BRAZILIAN REAL (0.21%), BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen (0.06%). Gone: ICE Futures Europe - Financial Products Division (0.20%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC93.05%
unknown unknown4.25%
preferred equity EP2.64%
short-term investment STIV0.06%

99.8% of EWZ 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 $10.17B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

92.11%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
1.27%Futures notional (2)
93.4%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 EWZ (20). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
BUG Global X Cybersecurity ETF 31 19.8 59.72% 2026-05-31
IXN iShares Global Tech ETF 140 19.9 59.56% 2026-06-30
XLU State Street(R) Utilities Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF 35 20 57.59% 2026-06-30
TGRW T. Rowe Price Growth Stock ETF 81 20 58.28% 2026-06-30
OMAH VistaShares Target 15 Berkshire Select Income ETF 60 20 55.37% 2026-07-31
XLRE State Street(R) Real Estate Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF 33 20.3 59.3% 2026-06-30
SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF 32 20.4 61.65% 2026-06-30
MISL First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF 40 20.4 61.64% 2026-06-30
CTEF Castellan Targeted Equity ETF 35 20.4 57.35% 2026-05-29
DDM ProShares Ultra Dow30 45 20.4 * 51.9% 2026-05-31

Essays that examine EWZ

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