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SHLD holdings

SHLD reports 50 holdings and behaves like 21.3 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 11 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

1.2% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 21.3

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.

50 Positions reported
21.3 Effective holdings
2.4× Concentration multiple
59.46% 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: 99.92% at a quoted market price (level 1), 13 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

SHLD's largest investment is Lockheed Martin Corp at 8.42% of net assets. RTX Corporation and General Dynamics Corp follow; the three together are 23.84%. Ten companies are 59.46% of the fund; the other 40 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, SHLD behaves like 21.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 11 quarterly filings SHLD has held roughly steady since 2023-11-30 (19.4 then, 21.3 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 1 positions were added and 1 dropped; 6.1% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 59.09% of the portfolio, across 13 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 2023

11

Between 2023-11-30 and 2026-05-31, SHLD went from behaving like 19.4 equally weighted positions to 21.3 — 10% more, while its top ten went from 63.89% to 59.46% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 50 21.3 59.46% 8.44%
2026-02-28 49 20.9 59.78% 9.47%
2025-11-30 52 20.1 61.84% 8.24%
2025-08-31 42 20 62.12% 8.6%
2025-05-31 39 17.9 65.8% 11.08%
2025-02-28 37 19.1 64.7% 9.65%
2024-11-30 38 19.3 62.83% 8.23%
2024-08-31 35 19.2 62.97% 8.8%
Earlier filings (3 more, back to 2023-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 34 19.6 62.35% 8.58%
2024-02-29 38 20.1 61.61% 8.24%
2023-11-30 35 19.4 63.89% 8.61%

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

1.22% collateral

SHLD's filing lists 51 positions including 1.22% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 21.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 59.25%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 21.3 with a top ten of 59.46%. 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 50 positions in SHLD's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: SHLD.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION8.44%8.4%
2RTX CORPORATION7.78%16.2%
3GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION7.70%23.9%
4PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.7.09%31.0%
5Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft5.78%36.8%
6BAE SYSTEMS PLC4.90%41.7%
7L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.4.71%46.4%
8HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.4.41%50.8%
9LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI4.36%55.2%
10THALES SA4.29%59.5%
11Northrop Grumman Corporation4.24%63.7%
12ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD4.15%67.9%
13SAAB Aktiebolag3.83%71.7%
14BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.3.06%74.7%
15LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC.2.78%77.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
United States 58.59%
South Korea 7.75%
United Kingdom 7.00%
Germany 6.84%
France 5.61%
Italy 4.36%
Israel 4.35%
Sweden 3.83%

Returns the fund reported

2023-09 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SHLD's own filings, 32 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

16.2%Best month
-8.3%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: SHLD.json · all funds.

Who borrows SHLD'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, $160m was out to 17 borrowers, 2.00% of net assets. The largest, Merrill Lynch International, held 24.1% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
Merrill Lynch International $39m 24.1%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $25m 15.9%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $22m 13.6%
BNP Paribas Financial Markets $11m 7.2%
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $11m 7.0%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.22% of net assets, 61% 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 SHLD has filed, with each borrower: SHLD.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

49 positions became 49: 1 added (0.0% 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: 6.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SHLD compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.5.60%7.09% LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION9.47%8.44%
ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD3.17%4.15% Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft6.78%5.78%
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION7.16%7.70% Northrop Grumman Corporation4.92%4.24%
LIG Defense&Aerospace Co., Ltd0.67%1.11% LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC.3.44%2.78%
MERCURY SYSTEMS, INC.0.81%1.13% HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.2.67%2.05%
BAE SYSTEMS PLC4.61%4.90% KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC.2.20%1.82%

New: BANK OF NEW YORK (THE) (0.00%). Gone: Sdt Uzay ve Savunma Teknolojileri AS (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

98.79% equity, 1.21% repurchase agreement as filed; 99.9% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of SHLD (21.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
ARKG ARK Genomic Revolution ETF 33 21.2 59.16% 2026-07-31
IGV iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF 110 21.3 60.65% 2026-06-30
IOO iShares Global 100 ETF 113 21.3 57.41% 2026-06-30
IGPT Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF 101 21.3 59.58% 2026-07-31
MOO VanEck Agribusiness ETF 46 21.3 60.2% 2026-06-30
FLBR Franklin FTSE Brazil ETF 68 21.4 56.04% 2026-06-30
ICF iShares Select U.S. REIT ETF 32 21.5 59.05% 2026-07-31
VNQ Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund 144 21.6 54.95% 2026-07-31
GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF 61 21.6 58.67% 2026-06-30
FXI iShares China Large-Cap ETF 54 21.7 58.83% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine SHLD

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