Fund · FlexShares US Quality Large Cap Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
QLC holdings
QLC reports 178 holdings and behaves like 45.7 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: 99.13% at a quoted market price (level 1), 9 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31QLC's largest investment is Nvidia Corp at 7.48% of net assets. Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc follow; the three together are 19.2%. Ten companies are 37.73% of the fund; the other 168 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, QLC behaves like 45.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings QLC has become more concentrated: it behaved like 77.9 at 2019-10-31 and 43.6 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 10 positions were added and 6 dropped; 8.2% of the weight moved.
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, QLC went from behaving like 77.9 equally weighted positions to 43.6 — 44% fewer, while its top ten went from 23.79% to 39.02% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 175 | 43.6 | 39.02% | 7.51% |
| 2026-01-31 | 171 | 45 | 38.29% | 7.35% |
| 2025-10-31 | 166 | 46.4 | 38.05% | 7.19% |
| 2025-07-31 | 165 | 45 | 38.26% | 7.76% |
| 2025-04-30 | 162 | 51.7 | 34.87% | 7.48% |
| 2025-01-31 | 157 | 48.9 | 36.62% | 7.7% |
| 2024-10-31 | 165 | 48.7 | 35.48% | 7.8% |
| 2024-07-31 | 167 | 48.8 | 35.25% | 8.19% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 175 | 54.4 | 33.72% | 6.98% |
| 2024-01-31 | 176 | 53.6 | 32.29% | 7.88% |
| 2023-10-31 | 184 | 52.1 | 32.19% | 8.5% |
| 2023-07-31 | 179 | 51.8 | 31.36% | 9.04% |
| 2023-04-30 | 178 | 54 | 30.39% | 8.67% |
| 2023-01-31 | 181 | 64.4 | 27.72% | 7.42% |
| 2022-10-31 | 174 | 57.9 | 29.01% | 8.31% |
| 2022-07-31 | 179 | 54.5 | 30.52% | 8.59% |
| 2022-04-30 | 173 | 56.1 | 30.2% | 8.25% |
| 2022-01-31 | 166 | 54.3 | 30.42% | 8.38% |
| 2021-10-31 | 162 | 56.6 | 30.79% | 7.3% |
| 2021-07-31 | 165 | 57.3 | 30.83% | 7.42% |
| 2021-04-30 | 161 | 60.2 | 29.7% | 7.11% |
| 2021-01-31 | 154 | 57.4 | 28.86% | 8.01% |
| 2020-10-31 | 147 | 57.3 | 29.72% | 7.72% |
| 2020-07-31 | 146 | 56.8 | 28.98% | 8.29% |
| 2020-04-30 | 141 | 63.6 | 28.17% | 6.64% |
| 2020-01-31 | 145 | 71.1 | 25.25% | 6.19% |
| 2019-10-31 | 143 | 77.9 | 23.79% | 5.22% |
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 178 positions in QLC's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: QLC.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.51% | 7.5% |
| 2 | Apple, Inc. | 6.85% | 14.4% |
| 3 | Alphabet, Inc. | 4.92% | 19.3% |
| 4 | Alphabet, Inc. | 4.40% | 23.7% |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp. | 3.95% | 27.6% |
| 6 | Broadcom, Inc. | 3.34% | 31.0% |
| 7 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 2.59% | 33.6% |
| 8 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.86% | 35.4% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1.86% | 37.3% |
| 10 | Citigroup, Inc. | 1.73% | 39.0% |
| 11 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.72% | 40.7% |
| 12 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.63% | 42.4% |
| 13 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 1.56% | 43.9% |
| 14 | Bank of America Corp. | 1.33% | 45.3% |
| 15 | Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) | 1.17% | 46.4% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of QLC'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 States | 97.51% |
| United Kingdom | 0.56% |
| Luxembourg° | 0.40% |
| Ireland° | 0.37% |
| Jersey° | 0.35% |
| Canada | 0.33% |
| Israel | 0.21% |
| Singapore | 0.14% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of QLC'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 — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: QLC.json · all funds.
Who borrows QLC'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, $18m was out to 9 borrowers. The largest, CITADEL CLEARING LLC, held 34.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| CITADEL CLEARING LLC | $6m | 34.6% |
| BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. | $5m | 29.2% |
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $3m | 17.7% |
| CITADEL SECURITIES LLC | $1m | 5.8% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL | $897,610 | 4.9% |
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 QLC has filed, with each borrower: QLC.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30171 positions became 175: 10 added (2.2% of the fund at the later date), 6 dropped (0.6% 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 QLC 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcom, Inc. | 2.76% | 3.34% | Capital One Financial Corp. | 0.98% | 0.28% |
| Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.55% | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.17% | 1.63% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 4.50% | 4.92% | Equity Residential | 0.55% | 0.05% |
| Omnicom Group, Inc. | 0.08% | 0.47% | Leidos Holdings, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.03% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 4.06% | 4.40% | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | 0.46% | 0.14% |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | 0.28% | 0.51% | Microsoft Corp. | 4.27% | 3.95% |
New: Franklin Resources, Inc. (0.54%), Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (0.45%), Las Vegas Sands Corp. (0.38%), Fortive Corp. (0.25%), Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (0.22%), PTC, Inc. (0.20%). Gone: MercadoLibre, Inc. (0.21%), Hologic, Inc. (0.15%), DoorDash, Inc. (0.07%), Stryker Corp. (0.05%), GE HealthCare Technologies, Inc. (0.05%), Fox Corp. (0.04%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 99.13% |
| repurchase agreement RA | 0.83% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.04% |
99.1% of QLC 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 $901M. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
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 QLC (45.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTEC First Trust NASDAQ-100-Technology Sector Index Fund | 48 | 44.4 | 28.68% | 2026-06-30 |
| PTL Inspire 500 ETF | 483 | 44.5 | 29.27% | 2026-05-31 |
| AAUS Alpha Architect US Equity ETF | 353 | 45.2 | 38.52% | 2026-06-30 |
| FDVV Fidelity High Dividend ETF | 98 | 45.4 | 33.87% | 2026-07-31 |
| GSUS Goldman Sachs MarketBeta U.S. Equity ETF | 414 | 45.6 | 39.8% | 2026-05-31 |
| SPHD Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF | 53 | 45.9 | 29.18% | 2026-05-31 |
| PEY Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend AchieversTM ETF | 50 | 46 | 29.3% | 2026-07-31 |
| GSPY Gotham Enhanced 500 ETF | 502 | 46.6 | 38.16% | 2026-06-30 |
| ABFL Abacus FCF Leaders ETF | 59 | 46.6 | 30.95% | 2026-07-31 |
| PPTY U.S. Diversified Real Estate ETF | 87 | 46.7 | 34.3% | 2026-05-31 |
Essays that examine QLC
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