Fund · iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF · measured from SEC filings
IQLT holdings
IQLT reports 318 holdings and behaves like 89.6 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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 10.27% at a quoted market price (level 1), 28 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31IQLT's largest investment is ASML Holding NV at 6.04% of net assets. Shell PLC and Allianz SE follow; the three together are 11.08%. Ten companies are 22.66% of the fund; the other 308 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, IQLT behaves like 89.6 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.1 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IQLT has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (95.6 then, 82.4 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 20 positions were added and 12 dropped; 8.2% of the weight moved. the United Kingdom is the largest country at 15.23% of the portfolio, across 28 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, IQLT went from behaving like 95.6 equally weighted positions to 82.4 — 14% fewer, while its top ten went from 23.65% to 25.06% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 314 | 82.4 | 25.06% | 6.08% |
| 2026-01-31 | 306 | 82.6 | 24.69% | 6.13% |
| 2025-10-31 | 303 | 88.6 | 23.4% | 5.64% |
| 2025-07-31 | 307 | 101.8 | 21.55% | 3.95% |
| 2025-04-30 | 295 | 92.6 | 23.23% | 4.24% |
| 2025-01-31 | 307 | 88.8 | 24.02% | 4.9% |
| 2024-10-31 | 297 | 93.5 | 23.98% | 3.44% |
| 2024-07-31 | 303 | 84.3 | 26.02% | 4.67% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 298 | 77.4 | 26.68% | 5.58% |
| 2024-01-31 | 305 | 78.8 | 26.81% | 5.57% |
| 2023-10-31 | 301 | 71.5 | 28.6% | 6.01% |
| 2023-07-31 | 305 | 76.7 | 27.91% | 4.52% |
| 2023-04-30 | 303 | 71.2 | 29.56% | 5.49% |
| 2023-01-31 | 306 | 74.3 | 29.06% | 4.67% |
| 2022-10-31 | 305 | 72.6 | 30.26% | 4.33% |
| 2022-07-31 | 307 | 76.5 | 29.21% | 4.09% |
| 2022-04-30 | 301 | 77.2 | 28.69% | 4.18% |
| 2022-01-31 | 303 | 82.6 | 26.9% | 4.03% |
| 2021-10-31 | 298 | 87 | 24.61% | 4.66% |
| 2021-07-31 | 299 | 89.9 | 24.19% | 4.4% |
| 2021-04-30 | 301 | 87.7 | 25.67% | 4.18% |
| 2021-01-31 | 302 | 89.3 | 25.21% | 4.19% |
| 2020-10-31 | 298 | 96.4 | 24.32% | 3.85% |
| 2020-07-31 | 300 | 93.6 | 24.97% | 4.1% |
| 2020-04-30 | 304 | 89.5 | 25.07% | 4.61% |
| 2020-01-31 | 303 | 101.5 | 22.56% | 3.82% |
| 2019-10-31 | 303 | 95.6 | 23.65% | 3.86% |
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.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 318 positions in IQLT's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: IQLT.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 6.08% | 6.1% |
| 2 | SHELL PLC | 2.56% | 8.6% |
| 3 | Allianz SE | 2.51% | 11.2% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 2.27% | 13.4% |
| 5 | ABB Ltd | 2.23% | 15.6% |
| 6 | Roche Holding AG | 2.18% | 17.8% |
| 7 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 2.03% | 19.9% |
| 8 | Nestle S.A. | 2.01% | 21.9% |
| 9 | Zurich Insurance Group AG | 1.62% | 23.5% |
| 10 | Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | 1.56% | 25.1% |
| 11 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 1.56% | 26.6% |
| 12 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.55% | 28.2% |
| 13 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 1.41% | 29.6% |
| 14 | Iberdrola, S.A. | 1.19% | 30.8% |
| 15 | UNILEVER PLC | 1.18% | 31.9% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of IQLT's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 15.78% |
| Switzerland | 15.11% |
| Japan | 13.13% |
| Netherlands° | 8.60% |
| Canada | 8.41% |
| France | 6.76% |
| Germany | 6.46% |
| Australia | 5.06% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of IQLT'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 0.19 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IQLT.json · all funds.
Who borrows IQLT'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, $68m was out to 3 borrowers. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 94.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $64m | 94.6% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $2m | 3.2% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $1m | 2.2% |
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 IQLT has filed, with each borrower: IQLT.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30305 positions became 313: 20 added (3.1% of the fund at the later date), 12 dropped (3.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of IQLT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHELL PLC | 2.22% | 2.56% | NOVO NORDISK A/S | 1.58% | 1.11% |
| ABB Ltd | 1.93% | 2.23% | Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft | 0.96% | 0.71% |
| Fujikura Ltd. | 0.36% | 0.64% | LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE | 1.19% | 0.96% |
| Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | 1.30% | 1.56% | UNILEVER PLC | 1.40% | 1.18% |
| Suncor Energy Inc. | 0.80% | 1.03% | HERMES INTERNATIONAL S.C.A. | 0.94% | 0.73% |
| FAST RETAILING CO., LTD. | 0.70% | 0.86% | 3I GROUP PLC | 0.71% | 0.54% |
New: Roche Holding AG (2.18%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.35%), SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (0.25%), EURO (0.08%), SWISS FRANC (0.08%), CANADIAN DOLLAR (0.06%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (2.47%), Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (0.49%), Ashtead Group PLC (0.22%), Trend Micro Inc/Japan (0.04%), FDJ UNITED (0.03%), Kobe Bussan Co Ltd (0.03%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 98.48% |
| unknown unknown | 0.98% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.54% |
10.3% of IQLT 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 $12.89B. 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 | 2040-03-31 | 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 IQLT (89.6). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FWD AB Disruptors ETF | 116 | 85.9 | 21.6% | 2026-05-31 |
| DFSE Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF | 3,707 | 86.4 | 23.75% | 2026-07-31 |
| WTV WisdomTree U.S. Value Fund | 124 | 88 | 21.49% | 2026-06-30 |
| VPL Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund | 2,349 | 88.7 | 23.89% | 2026-07-31 |
| URTH iShares MSCI World ETF | 1,328 | 88.8 | 27.73% | 2026-05-31 |
| FLJP Franklin FTSE Japan ETF | 477 | 90.7 | 25.51% | 2026-06-30 |
| CGMM Capital Group U.S. Small and Mid Cap ETF | 114 | 90.7 | 18.83% | 2026-05-31 |
| ROBT First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETF | 115 | 91.3 | 16.11% | 2026-06-30 |
| FIVA Fidelity International Value Factor ETF | 109 | 91.3 | 17.02% | 2026-07-31 |
| DLN WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund | 310 | 91.5 | 23.45% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine IQLT
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