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Fund · iShares MSCI South Africa ETF · measured from SEC filings

EZA holdings

EZA reports 30 holdings and behaves like 17.2 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
30 Positions reported
17.2 Effective holdings
1.7× Concentration multiple
65.31% 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: 23.44% at a quoted market price (level 1), 5 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EZA's largest investment is Anglogold Ashanti PLC at 12.06% of net assets. Naspers NPV and Gold Fields Ltd follow; the three together are 31.25%. Ten companies are 65.31% of the fund; the other 20 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EZA behaves like 17.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.4 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EZA has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (14.1 then, 17.2 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 1 positions were added and 1 dropped; 7.6% of the weight moved. South Africa is the largest country at 84.9% of the portfolio, across 5 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, EZA went from behaving like 14.1 equally weighted positions to 17.2 — 22% more, while its top ten went from 56.27% to 65.31% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 30 17.2 65.31% 12.08%
2026-02-28 29 15.8 68.35% 13.51%
2025-11-30 28 15.8 66.32% 13.35%
2025-08-31 29 15.6 64.46% 16.35%
2025-05-31 31 15 65.43% 17.66%
2025-02-28 32 15.7 65.47% 17.02%
2024-11-30 32 16.3 63.73% 16.02%
2024-08-31 34 16.4 63.29% 15.66%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 33 15.7 62.91% 17.72%
2024-02-29 33 17 62.06% 15.86%
2023-11-30 36 16.2 62.31% 17.24%
2023-08-31 38 17.2 59.7% 16.34%
2023-05-31 38 17.4 60.19% 16.46%
2023-02-28 39 17.2 58.97% 17.08%
2022-11-30 39 19.8 57.96% 13.87%
2022-08-31 38 19.6 57.88% 14.07%
2022-05-31 38 22.5 56.18% 9.2%
2022-02-28 40 22.7 56.81% 9.79%
2021-11-30 39 19.9 56.99% 14.17%
2021-08-31 39 24.6 51.44% 10.1%
2021-05-31 38 14.1 57.87% 22%
2021-02-28 39 13.4 56.8% 23.12%
2020-11-30 41 12.9 57.11% 23.95%
2020-08-31 40 15.1 57.35% 20.84%
2020-05-31 49 10.4 58.65% 28.25%
2020-02-29 48 10.6 58.79% 27.77%
2019-11-30 47 14.1 56.27% 22.69%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC12.08%12.1%
2NASPERS LIMITED10.38%22.5%
3Gold Fields Limited8.82%31.3%
4FIRSTRAND LIMITED7.04%38.3%
5MTN GROUP LIMITED5.33%43.7%
6STANDARD BANK GROUP LIMITED5.33%49.0%
7CAPITEC BANK HOLDINGS LIMITED4.60%53.6%
8VALTERRA PLATINUM LIMITED4.53%58.1%
9IMPALA PLATINUM HOLDINGS LIMITED3.68%61.8%
10ABSA GROUP LIMITED3.52%65.3%
11HARMONY GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITED2.99%68.3%
12DISCOVERY LIMITED2.91%71.2%
13SANLAM LIMITED2.71%73.9%
14SIBANYE STILLWATER LIMITED2.50%76.4%
15SHOPRITE HOLDINGS LIMITED2.48%78.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
South Africa 84.90%
United Kingdom 12.08%
Netherlands° 1.64%
Luxembourg° 1.33%
United States 0.05%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

42.3%Last twelve months filed
110%Whole series, compounded
18.4%Best month
-26.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EZA.json · all funds.

Who borrows EZA's shares

2025-05-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2025-05-31, $6m was out to 2 borrowers, 1.46% of net assets. The largest, BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP, held 84.3% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP $5m 84.3%
BofA Securities, Inc. $890,963 15.7%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.58% of net assets, 108.2% 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 EZA has filed, with each borrower: EZA.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

29 positions became 29: 1 added (0.1% of the fund at the later date), 1 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EZA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
NASPERS LIMITED9.23%10.38% Gold Fields Limited10.97%8.82%
SASOL LIMITED1.44%2.37% VALTERRA PLATINUM LIMITED6.37%4.53%
STANDARD BANK GROUP LIMITED4.51%5.33% ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC13.51%12.08%
MTN GROUP LIMITED4.53%5.33% IMPALA PLATINUM HOLDINGS LIMITED4.79%3.68%
DISCOVERY LIMITED2.19%2.91% SIBANYE STILLWATER LIMITED3.09%2.50%
FIRSTRAND LIMITED6.45%7.04% SANLAM LIMITED2.86%2.71%

New: SOUTH AFRICAN RAND (0.13%). Gone: South African Futures Exchange (0.00%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC99.82%
unknown unknown0.13%
short-term investment STIV0.05%

23.4% of EZA 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 $693M. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.71%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.27%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

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of EZA (17.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
JETS U.S. Global Jets ETF 49 16.7 65.98% 2026-06-30
EIDO iShares MSCI Indonesia ETF 84 16.7 59.49% 2026-05-31
NUGO Nuveen Growth Opportunities ETF 45 16.8 62.37% 2026-07-31
IXC iShares Global Energy ETF 61 16.8 57.57% 2026-06-30
FLCG Federated Hermes MDT Large Cap Growth ETF 101 17.1 63.09% 2026-05-31
IYG iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF 101 17.3 63.29% 2026-07-31
TAN Invesco Solar ETF 32 17.6 65.15% 2026-05-31
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
EWT iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 87 17.9 51.57% 2026-05-31

Essays that examine EZA

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