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Fund · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · measured from SEC filings

IEMG holdings

IEMG reports 2,697 holdings and behaves like 38.9 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

5.3% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 34.9

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.

2,697 Positions reported
38.9 Effective holdings
69.4× Concentration multiple
33.92% 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: 17.9% at a quoted market price (level 1), 37 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

IEMG's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 12.49% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 25.11%. Ten companies are 33.92% of the fund; the other 2,687 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, IEMG behaves like 38.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IEMG has become more concentrated: it behaved like 121.1 at 2019-11-30 and 38.9 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 65 positions were added and 71 dropped; 12.1% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 24.48% of the portfolio, across 37 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, IEMG went from behaving like 121.1 equally weighted positions to 38.9 — 68% fewer, while its top ten went from 21.48% to 33.92% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 2,697 38.9 33.92% 12.46%
2026-02-28 2,704 51.7 28.71% 11.36%
2025-11-30 2,710 67.3 26.02% 9.78%
2025-08-31 2,691 80.4 23.87% 8.62%
2025-05-31 2,701 90 22.86% 8.09%
2025-02-28 2,779 83.8 23.88% 8.29%
2024-11-30 2,818 90.7 22.14% 8.4%
2024-08-31 2,936 94.3 21.78% 8.1%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 2,941 104.5 21.35% 7.37%
2024-02-29 2,935 123.8 19.72% 6.55%
2023-11-30 2,740 130.2 19.77% 5.72%
2023-08-31 2,716 137 19.47% 5.47%
2023-05-31 2,703 124.4 20.19% 6.06%
2023-02-28 2,693 132.6 20.03% 5.53%
2022-11-30 2,686 139.9 19.92% 5.32%
2022-08-31 2,674 135.7 20.14% 5.4%
2022-05-31 2,574 124.7 20.69% 5.91%
2022-02-28 2,579 117.1 21.12% 6.19%
2021-11-30 2,597 114.6 21.55% 6.02%
2021-08-31 2,582 113.7 21.72% 5.8%
2021-05-31 2,617 107.3 22.7% 5.42%
2021-02-28 2,510 81.6 26.45% 5.9%
2020-11-30 2,498 80.8 26.59% 6.19%
2020-08-31 2,473 72.8 27.62% 7.46%
2020-05-31 2,467 91.8 24.67% 6.1%
2020-02-29 2,477 103.2 23.25% 5.6%
2019-11-30 2,520 121.1 21.48% 5.21%

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
IEMG vs VWO 54.62% 1,460 45.3

As filed, collateral included

5.31% collateral

IEMG's filing lists 2,698 positions including 5.31% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 34.9 effective holdings with a top ten of 38.58%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 38.9 with a top ten of 33.92%. 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 2,697 positions in IEMG'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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited12.46%12.5%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.6.79%19.3%
3SK hynix Inc.5.81%25.1%
4Tencent Holdings Limited2.37%27.4%
5Alibaba Group Holding Limited1.82%29.2%
6MediaTek Inc.1.41%30.7%
7DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.1.02%31.7%
8HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.78%32.5%
9Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.0.74%33.2%
10CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION0.71%33.9%
11HDFC BANK LIMITED0.61%34.5%
12RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED0.58%35.1%
13SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.54%35.6%
14SK Square Co., Ltd.0.52%36.2%
15ICICI BANK LIMITED0.48%36.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 25.78%
South Korea 22.07%
India 11.93%
Cayman Islands° 10.26%
China 8.17%
Brazil 3.35%
South Africa 2.68%
Saudi Arabia 2.49%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

51.6%Last twelve months filed
108%Whole series, compounded
15.3%Best month
-16.2%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.31 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IEMG.json · all funds.

Who borrows IEMG'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, $7.8bn was out to 23 borrowers, 4.79% of net assets. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC, held 23.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $1.9bn 23.9%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $1.6bn 20.7%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $944m 12.2%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $771m 9.9%
BofA Securities, Inc. $649m 8.4%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 5.31% of net assets, 110.9% 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 IEMG has filed, with each borrower: IEMG.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

2,669 positions became 2,663: 65 added (0.4% of the fund at the later date), 71 dropped (0.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 12.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of IEMG 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.3.00%5.81% Tencent Holdings Limited3.13%2.37%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.5.27%6.79% Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.31%1.82%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited11.36%12.46% HDFC BANK LIMITED0.82%0.61%
MediaTek Inc.0.69%1.41% ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC0.48%0.33%
SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.13%0.54% Gold Fields Limited0.39%0.24%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.65%1.02% XIAOMI CORPORATION0.57%0.42%

New: Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (0.09%), SenseTime Group Inc (0.04%), MSCI EMGMKT JUN26 (0.03%), Hesai Group (0.02%), Pony AI Inc (0.01%), Vedanta Iron and Steel Ltd (0.01%). Gone: Kiler Holding AS (0.03%), DESTEK FINANS FAKTORING ANONIM SIRKETI (0.02%), HYUNDAI AUTOEVER CORPORATION. (0.02%), DONGFENG MOTOR GROUP COMPANY LIMITED (0.02%), Wanguo Gold Group Ltd (0.02%), Two Point Zero Group P.J.S.C (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC91.91%
short-term investment STIV5.46%
unknown unknown2.43%
preferred equity EP0.17%
derivative DE0.03%

17.9% of IEMG is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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 $162.03B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

96.97%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.45%Futures notional (1)
97.4%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of IEMG (38.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
BLOK Amplify Blockchain Technology ETF 55 38.1 37.55% 2026-06-30
FVAL Fidelity Value Factor ETF 127 38.1 42.28% 2026-07-31
VGSR Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate ETF 144 38.4 44.92% 2026-06-30
AMOM QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Momentum ETF 51 38.5 37.49% 2026-07-31
EWJV iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF 110 38.8 40.62% 2026-05-31
DUHP Dimensional US High Profitability ETF 150 39.3 41.44% 2026-07-31
EMGF iShares Emerging Markets Equity Factor ETF 631 39.3 35.68% 2026-05-31
SEEM SEI Select Emerging Markets Equity ETF 264 39.3 36.11% 2026-06-30
GII State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Global Infrastructure ETF 78 39.4 38.71% 2026-06-30
QVML Invesco S&P 500 QVM Multi-Factor ETF 448 39.5 41.66% 2026-05-31

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