ESMV holdings and overlap
iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF (ESMV) holds 158 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are ServiceNow (NOW) at 1.80%, Microsoft (MSFT) at 1.62% and Travelers Companies (TRV) at 1.62%, and its ten largest make up 15.1% of the fund.
In its iShares file of 2026-10-27, ESMV is 32.8% technology, 14.6% health care and 12.8% financials by sector, with 4.8% in mega-cap tech and 5.0% in the ten largest US companies by market value. By country, 98.6% of ESMV is in the United States, 1.1% in Argentina.
What does ESMV hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
ServiceNow is 1.8% of ESMV on its own, against a median largest position of 7.6% across the 72 US Large Blend funds with a page here. 111 of the 594 funds with a page hold NOW, and ESMV gives it more weight than all but 6 of them.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NOW ServiceNow | 1.8% | |
| 2 | MSFT Microsoft | 1.62% | |
| 3 | TRV Travelers Companies | 1.62% | |
| 4 | NVDA Nvidia | 1.48% | |
| 5 | PANW Palo Alto Networks | 1.47% | |
| 6 | MSI Motorola Solutions | 1.45% | |
| 7 | MA Mastercard | 1.44% | |
| 8 | MCK McKesson | 1.43% | |
| 9 | TXN Texas Instruments | 1.43% | |
| 10 | WELL Welltower | 1.42% | |
| 11 | WMB Williams Companies | 1.42% | |
| 12 | AMD Advanced Micro Devices | 1.4% | |
| 13 | VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals | 1.4% | |
| 14 | MRK Merck | 1.38% | |
| 15 | KO Coca-Cola | 1.38% | |
| 16 | GILD Gilead Sciences | 1.38% | |
| 17 | V Visa | 1.37% | |
| 18 | BNY BNY Mellon | 1.37% | |
| 19 | CSCO Cisco | 1.35% | |
| 20 | VZ Verizon | 1.32% | |
| 21 | ADP Automatic Data Processing | 1.28% | |
| 22 | CB Chubb Limited | 1.26% | |
| 23 | ED Consolidated Edison | 1.25% | |
| 24 | COR Cencora | 1.24% | |
| 25 | AMAT Applied Materials | 1.18% | |
| 26 | TT Trane Technologies | 1.17% | |
| 27 | MRSH Marsh McLennan | 1.13% | |
| 28 | CL Colgate-Palmolive | 1.11% | |
| 29 | PGR Progressive | 1.11% | |
| 30 | ADBE Adobe | 1.08% | |
| 31 | KR Kroger | 1.07% | |
| 32 | CAH Cardinal Health | 1.07% | |
| 33 | PEG Public Service Enterprise Group | 1.07% | |
| 34 | MELI MercadoLibre | 1.06% | |
| 35 | ROP Roper Technologies | 1.06% | |
| 36 | T AT&T | 1.02% | |
| 37 | PG Procter & Gamble | 1.01% | |
| 38 | CBOE Cboe Global Markets | 1.0% | |
| 39 | GEV GE Vernova | 1.0% | |
| 40 | ADSK Autodesk | 0.98% | |
| 41 | CME CME Group | 0.97% | |
| 42 | GWW W. W. Grainger | 0.97% | |
| 43 | JNJ Johnson & Johnson | 0.96% | |
| 44 | KMI Kinder Morgan | 0.92% | |
| 45 | NOC Northrop Grumman | 0.92% | |
| 46 | HD Home Depot | 0.91% | |
| 47 | ELV Elevance Health | 0.89% | |
| 48 | MRVL Marvell Technology | 0.88% | |
| 49 | CRM Salesforce | 0.88% | |
| 50 | COP ConocoPhillips | 0.85% | |
| 51 | AVGO Broadcom | 0.84% | |
| 52 | APH Amphenol | 0.84% | |
| 53 | ACN Accenture | 0.83% | |
| 54 | MCD McDonald's | 0.82% | |
| 55 | LLY Eli Lilly | 0.81% | |
| 56 | PEP PepsiCo | 0.81% | |
| 57 | TMUS T-Mobile US | 0.81% | |
| 58 | XOM ExxonMobil | 0.8% | |
| 59 | SNPS Synopsys | 0.75% | |
| 60 | ECL Ecolab | 0.75% | |
| 61 | EXC Exelon | 0.71% | |
| 62 | DGX Quest Diagnostics | 0.71% | |
| 63 | ADI Analog Devices | 0.7% | |
| 64 | TJX TJX Companies | 0.7% | |
| 65 | AMT American Tower | 0.7% | |
| 66 | LNG Cheniere Energy | 0.69% | |
| 67 | CDNS Cadence Design Systems | 0.68% | |
| 68 | PTC PTC | 0.67% | |
| 69 | RTX RTX | 0.67% | |
| 70 | SPGI S&P Global | 0.66% | |
| 71 | IBM IBM | 0.66% | |
| 72 | MU Micron Technology | 0.66% | |
| 73 | TDY Teledyne Technologies | 0.65% | |
| 74 | CHD Church & Dwight | 0.63% | |
| 75 | AAPL Apple | 0.62% | |
| 76 | INTU Intuit | 0.61% | |
| 77 | NEM Newmont | 0.6% | |
| 78 | PLTR Palantir Technologies | 0.6% | |
| 79 | CASY Casey's | 0.58% | |
| 80 | WDAY Workday | 0.57% | |
| 81 | CMS CMS Energy | 0.55% | |
| 82 | VRSN Verisign | 0.54% | |
| 83 | PSX Phillips 66 | 0.54% | |
| 84 | NEE NextEra Energy | 0.5% | |
| 85 | LIN Linde | 0.49% | |
| 86 | INCY Incyte | 0.49% | |
| 87 | AMGN Amgen | 0.48% | |
| 88 | LRCX Lam Research | 0.46% | |
| 89 | LOW Lowe's | 0.46% | |
| 90 | EQIX Equinix | 0.45% | |
| 91 | ALNY Alnylam Pharmaceuticals | 0.44% | |
| 92 | MNST Monster Beverage | 0.43% | |
| 93 | KMB Kimberly-Clark | 0.42% | |
| 94 | YUM Yum! Brands | 0.42% | |
| 95 | ES Eversource Energy | 0.41% | |
| 96 | CRH CRH | 0.4% | |
| 97 | MDLZ Mondelez International | 0.4% | |
| 98 | CNC Centene | 0.4% | |
| 99 | WY Weyerhaeuser | 0.39% | |
| 100 | CI Cigna | 0.38% |
The most recent file iShares has published for ESMV is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 158 positions ESMV holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 110 ETFs with a page here that hold NOW, and how their weights compare with the 1.8% ESMV gives it.
Category: US Large Blend, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-27, 99% of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, they sit where 64% of their market's value is in larger companies (large: up to 78%); growth index funds hold 37% of their value against 39% for companies of the same sizes in the whole market (blend: within 10 points). How categories are set.
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On the close of Friday, October 23, 2026, ESMV neither created nor redeemed shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net inflow of $0.
From ESMV's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is ESMV split by sector and country?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Technology | 32.8% | |
| Health care | 14.6% | |
| Financials | 12.8% | |
| Consumer staples | 8.5% | |
| Industrials | 7.6% | |
| Energy | 5.4% | |
| Utilities | 4.6% | |
| Consumer discretionary | 4.5% | |
| Communication services | 3.8% | |
| Real estate | 3.0% | |
| Materials | 2.2% |
| Country | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 98.6% | |
| Argentina | 1.1% | |
| Canada | 0.1% |
From its iShares file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did ESMV hold in its SEC reports since 2022?
In ESMV's SEC filings, its largest position went from Verizon (VZ) at 1.62% on 2022-01-31 to Palo Alto Networks (PANW) at 1.99% on 2026-07-31, across 19 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-31 | 166 | VZ 1.62% | 15.3% |
| 2022-10-31 | 161 | GILD 1.85% | 16.7% |
| 2023-10-31 | 148 | VMW 1.80% | 16.8% |
| 2024-10-31 | 150 | MSI 1.70% | 15.9% |
| 2025-10-31 | 154 | APH 1.88% | 16.4% |
| 2026-07-31 | 154 | PANW 1.99% | 15.8% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 19 reports ESMV filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2022-01-31 to 2026-07-31, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/esmv/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does ESMV duplicate?
The ETF nearest to ESMV is USMV: the two hold 65.5% of their weight in common, in the 125 companies both own, and 86.5% of ESMV itself is also held there. Owning ESMV alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means about half of the weight is held twice.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of ESMV held there | Of that ETF in ESMV | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USMV | 65.5% | 86.5% | 84.0% | 125 | |
| QUS | 48.8% | 100.0% | 66.9% | 157 | |
| SUSA | 42.5% | 70.6% | 69.7% | 103 | |
| ACWV | 40.8% | 79.4% | 48.4% | 110 | |
| ESGU | 39.7% | 88.8% | 66.6% | 132 | |
| EVUS | 37.9% | 64.3% | 59.4% | 96 | |
| EQWL | 37.4% | 43.9% | 52.4% | 52 | |
| QWLD | 36.0% | 100.0% | 46.0% | 157 | |
| SUSL | 35.1% | 71.2% | 69.0% | 102 | |
| IUS | 35.0% | 89.0% | 49.5% | 133 | |
| DSI | 34.7% | 75.2% | 65.0% | 107 | |
| PFM | 34.2% | 60.1% | 60.2% | 78 |
From each issuer's latest file. Check ESMV against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to ESMV?
MCHI shares 0% of weight with ESMV and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.27 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with ESMV, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCHI | iShares MSCI China ETF | 0.0% | 0.27 | 0 |
| SMIN | iShares MSCI India Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.33 | 0 |
| PICK | iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF | 0.0% | 0.53 | 0 |
| PFF | iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF | 0.0% | 0.57 | 0 |
| XMMO | Invesco S&P MidCap Momentum ETF | 0.0% | 0.64 | 0 |
| SCZ | iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.67 | 0 |
| XSMO | Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF | 0.0% | 0.68 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.73 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.18% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 1.42% |
| Total return, 1 year | 13.8% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 45.2% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | n/a |
| Volatility, annualised | 10.0% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -10.0% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.56 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 15.1% |
| Largest single position | 1.8% |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from ESMV's SEC filing of 2025-11-21); the weight in the ten largest positions and the largest single position are from the issuer file of 2026-10-27; every other figure is computed here from weekly closes.
How it moves with the market
| Against | Correlation, 3 years | Covariance, annualised, in percent squared |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 0.78often in step | 108 |
| QQQ | 0.61loosely linked | 117 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 12.9% |
| 2025 | 5.3% |
| 2024 | 13.1% |
| 2023 | 12.2% |
| 2022 | -11.1% |
One year
Where to go next
- EUSA, iShares MSCI USA Equal Weighted ETF
- GSLC, Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta(R) U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF
- INRO, iShares U.S. Industry Rotation Active ETF
- ITOT, iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what ESMV carries once you look through it
- Compare ESMV against any other ETF in the builder
Holdings from the most recent file iShares has published, dated 2026-10-27. Prices through 2026-10-28. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.
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