Fund · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF · measured from SEC filings
IEFA holdings
IEFA reports 2,630 holdings and behaves like 267.8 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-07-31Read this figure with the following in mind
1.0% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 261.7
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.
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: 3.98% at a quoted market price (level 1), 30 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31IEFA's largest investment is ASML Holding NV at 2.21% of net assets. HSBC Holdings PLC and Astrazeneca PLC follow; the three together are 4.62%. Ten companies are 11.97% of the fund; the other 2,620 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, IEFA behaves like 267.8 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 6.3 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IEFA has become more concentrated: it behaved like 363.3 at 2019-10-31 and 287.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 75 positions were added and 41 dropped; 7.6% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 24.72% of the portfolio, across 30 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
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, IEFA went from behaving like 363.3 equally weighted positions to 287.8 — 21% fewer, while its top ten went from 10.02% to 11.49% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 2,637 | 287.8 | 11.49% | 2.23% |
| 2026-01-31 | 2,603 | 287 | 11.45% | 2.22% |
| 2025-10-31 | 2,617 | 299.4 | 10.96% | 1.81% |
| 2025-07-31 | 2,608 | 316.5 | 10.59% | 1.39% |
| 2025-04-30 | 2,614 | 300.1 | 11.24% | 1.48% |
| 2025-01-31 | 2,685 | 288.9 | 11.89% | 1.51% |
| 2024-10-31 | 2,708 | 287.1 | 12.17% | 1.88% |
| 2024-07-31 | 2,744 | 267.6 | 13.25% | 2.19% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 2,821 | 265.3 | 13.39% | 2.22% |
| 2024-01-31 | 2,865 | 272.2 | 13.26% | 2% |
| 2023-10-31 | 2,918 | 276.5 | 13.13% | 1.91% |
| 2023-07-31 | 2,984 | 291.7 | 12.66% | 1.81% |
| 2023-04-30 | 3,021 | 284.8 | 12.84% | 1.93% |
| 2023-01-31 | 3,017 | 296.9 | 12.4% | 1.86% |
| 2022-10-31 | 3,063 | 292.3 | 12.81% | 2.03% |
| 2022-07-31 | 3,081 | 305.7 | 12.44% | 2.04% |
| 2022-04-30 | 3,059 | 304.6 | 12.46% | 2.07% |
| 2022-01-31 | 3,074 | 329.9 | 11.4% | 1.85% |
| 2021-10-31 | 3,011 | 344 | 11.02% | 1.86% |
| 2021-07-31 | 2,950 | 352.5 | 10.88% | 1.79% |
| 2021-04-30 | 2,828 | 369 | 10.14% | 1.74% |
| 2021-01-31 | 2,652 | 370.8 | 10.16% | 1.75% |
| 2020-10-31 | 2,550 | 353 | 10.53% | 2.17% |
| 2020-07-31 | 2,513 | 332.5 | 10.98% | 2.26% |
| 2020-04-30 | 2,492 | 325 | 11.26% | 2.22% |
| 2020-01-31 | 2,456 | 362.6 | 9.94% | 1.92% |
| 2019-10-31 | 2,465 | 363.3 | 10.02% | 1.96% |
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.
As filed, collateral included
1.02% collateralIEFA's filing lists 2,631 positions including 1.02% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 261.7 effective holdings with a top ten of 12.13%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 267.8 with a top ten of 11.97%. 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 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 2,630 positions in IEFA's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 2.23% | 2.2% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.25% | 3.5% |
| 3 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.17% | 4.6% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 1.14% | 5.8% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 1.11% | 6.9% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 1.03% | 7.9% |
| 7 | SHELL PLC | 1.03% | 9.0% |
| 8 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.90% | 9.9% |
| 9 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.84% | 10.7% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.80% | 11.5% |
| 11 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.80% | 12.3% |
| 12 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.73% | 13.0% |
| 13 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.72% | 13.7% |
| 14 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.71% | 14.4% |
| 15 | SAP SE | 0.69% | 15.1% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of IEFA's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| Japan | 24.94% |
| United Kingdom | 13.76% |
| Switzerland | 8.66% |
| France | 8.30% |
| Germany | 8.29% |
| Australia | 7.26% |
| Netherlands° | 5.92% |
| Sweden | 3.46% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of IEFA'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 0.17 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IEFA.json · all funds.
Who borrows IEFA's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $1.9bn was out to 24 borrowers. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 31.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $602m | 31.6% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $313m | 16.4% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $234m | 12.3% |
| BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP | $230m | 12.1% |
| UBS AG | $181m | 9.5% |
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 IEFA has filed, with each borrower: IEFA.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-302,597 positions became 2,631: 75 added (1.8% of the fund at the later date), 41 dropped (1.9% 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 IEFA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.58% | 0.73% | NOVO NORDISK A/S | 0.76% | 0.54% |
| COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.69% | 0.84% | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.86% | 0.72% |
| SHELL PLC | 0.89% | 1.03% | SAP SE | 0.83% | 0.69% |
| Nokia Oyj | 0.14% | 0.27% | LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE | 0.64% | 0.53% |
| Siemens Energy AG | 0.53% | 0.65% | ESSILORLUXOTTICA SA | 0.37% | 0.25% |
| Fujikura Ltd. | 0.13% | 0.23% | Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft | 0.39% | 0.29% |
New: Roche Holding AG (1.14%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.16%), SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (0.13%), TELECOM ITALIA SPA (0.02%), AYVENS SA (0.02%), CSG NV (0.02%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (1.28%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.23%), ASHTEAD GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (0.11%), CYBERARK SOFTWARE LTD. (0.09%), TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (0.08%), JDE Peet's N.V. (0.03%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 97.44% |
| unknown unknown | 1.54% |
| short-term investment STIV | 1.02% |
4.0% of IEFA 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 2026-04-30A 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 $180.74B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
1 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:
| Type | Side | Strike | Expiry | Underlying |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call | Purchased | 0 | 2030-08-31 | as filed, not named |
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 IEFA (267.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHA Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF | 1,707 | 240.7 | 10.53% | 2026-05-31 |
| BKIE BNY Mellon International Equity ETF | 978 | 243.1 | 12.21% | 2026-07-31 |
| USVM VictoryShares US Small Mid Cap Value Momentum ETF | 289 | 246.9 | 6.92% | 2026-06-30 |
| AVES Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF | 1,883 | 252.9 | 12.26% | 2026-05-31 |
| VXUS Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund | 8,832 | 253.6 | 13.32% | 2026-07-31 |
| VEA Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund | 3,890 | 268.9 | 13.15% | 2026-06-30 |
| AVUV Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF | 797 | 272.3 | 8.67% | 2026-05-31 |
| KOMP State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P Kensho New Economies Composite ETF | 505 | 272.8 | 9.91% | 2026-06-30 |
| IVOO Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund | 403 | 276.9 | 8.32% | 2026-05-31 |
| DWM WisdomTree International Equity Fund | 1,406 | 277.3 | 11.38% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine IEFA
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