EWA holdings and overlap
iShares MSCI Australia ETF (EWA) holds 43 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are BHP Group Ltd (BHP.AU) at 14.52%, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA.AU) at 13.36% and National Australia Bank (NAB.AU) at 6.19%, and its ten largest make up 65.5% of the fund.
In its iShares file of 2026-10-27, EWA is 42.0% financials, 23.2% materials and 6.7% consumer discretionary by sector, with none of it in mega-cap tech or in the ten largest US companies by market value. By country, 99.8% of EWA is in Australia.
What does EWA hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
EWA spreads its weight across 43 positions, against a median of 76 across the 14 Asia Pacific ex Japan funds with a page here. The position EWA carries furthest above that group is Commonwealth Bank of Australia at 13.36% of the fund, a company the median fund in that group does not hold at all.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP.AU BHP Group Ltd | 14.52% | |
| 2 | CBA.AU Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 13.36% | |
| 3 | NAB.AU National Australia Bank | 6.19% | |
| 4 | WBC.AU Westpac Banking Corporation | 6.1% | |
| 5 | ANZ.AU ANZ Group Holdings Ltd | 5.92% | |
| 6 | CSL.AU CSL | 4.64% | |
| 7 | MQG.AU Macquarie Group Ltd Def | 4.46% | |
| 8 | WES.AU Wesfarmers | 4.41% | |
| 9 | WDS.AU Woodside Energy Group Ltd | 3.11% | |
| 10 | RIO.AU Rio Tinto | 2.75% | |
| 11 | GMG.AU Goodman Group Units | 2.63% | |
| 12 | WOW.AU Woolworths Group | 2.47% | |
| 13 | TCL.AU Transurban Group Stapled Units | 2.14% | |
| 14 | QBE.AU Qbe Insurance Group | 1.91% | |
| 15 | ALL.AU Aristocrat Leisure | 1.69% | |
| 16 | NST.AU Northern Star Resources Ltd | 1.69% | |
| 17 | COL.AU Coles Group Ltd | 1.59% | |
| 18 | STO.AU Santos | 1.47% | |
| 19 | BXB.AU Brambles | 1.4% | |
| 20 | EVN.AU Evolution Mining | 1.17% | |
| 21 | FMG.AU Fortescue Ltd | 1.16% | |
| 22 | CPU.AU Computershare Ltd | 1.11% | |
| 23 | SUN.AU Suncorp Group | 1.05% | |
| 24 | ORG.AU Origin Energy | 1.02% | |
| 25 | S32.AU South32 | 0.97% | |
| 26 | IAG.AU Insurance Australia Group | 0.96% | |
| 27 | TLS.AU Telstra Group | 0.95% | |
| 28 | SCG.AU Scentre Group | 0.91% | |
| 29 | SOL.AU Washington H Soul Pattinson & Comp | 0.77% | |
| 30 | APA.AU Apa Group Units | 0.75% | |
| 31 | SIG.AU Sigma Healthcare | 0.7% | |
| 32 | MPL.AU Medibank Private | 0.69% | |
| 33 | ASX.AU Asx Ltd | 0.63% | |
| 34 | TLC.AU The Lottery Corporation Ltd | 0.58% | |
| 35 | PME.AU Pro Medicus | 0.56% | |
| 36 | LYC.AU Lynas Rare Earths | 0.52% | |
| 37 | XRO.AU Xero | 0.51% | |
| 38 | VCX.AU Vicinity Centres | 0.47% | |
| 39 | PLS.AU PLS Group Ltd | 0.45% | |
| 40 | SGH.AU SGH | 0.4% | |
| 41 | REA.AU Rea Group Ltd | 0.39% | |
| 42 | WTC.AU Wisetech Global | 0.39% | |
| 43 | QAN.AU Qantas Airways | 0.32% |
The most recent file iShares has published for EWA is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 43 positions EWA holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 48 ETFs with a page here that hold BHP.AU, and how their weights compare with the 14.52% EWA gives it.
Category: Asia Pacific ex Japan, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-27, 100% of its stocks with a known country are in Australia, which this site counts in Asia Pacific ex Japan. How categories are set.
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On the close of Friday, October 23, 2026, EWA neither created nor redeemed shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net outflow of $29 million.
From EWA's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is EWA split by sector and country?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Financials | 42.0% | |
| Materials | 23.2% | |
| Consumer discretionary | 6.7% | |
| Health care | 5.3% | |
| Industrials | 5.0% | |
| Energy | 4.6% | |
| Consumer staples | 4.1% | |
| Real estate | 4.0% | |
| Utilities | 1.8% | |
| Communication services | 1.3% | |
| Technology | 0.9% | |
| No sector found | 1.0% |
| Country | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 99.8% |
From its iShares file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did EWA hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
In EWA's SEC filings, its largest position went from Commonwealth Bank of Austral (CBA.AU) at 9.63% on 2019-11-30 to BHP Group Ltd (BHP.AU) at 15.69% on 2026-05-31, across 27 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-30 | 64 | CBA.AU 9.63% | 53.8% |
| 2020-11-30 | 64 | CBA.AU 9.87% | 55.4% |
| 2021-11-30 | 64 | CBA.AU 10.31% | 55.4% |
| 2022-11-30 | 59 | BHP.AU 13.34% | 61.0% |
| 2023-11-30 | 58 | BHP.AU 13.85% | 59.3% |
| 2024-11-30 | 54 | CBA.AU 13.34% | 60.9% |
| 2025-11-30 | 40 | CBA.AU 13.17% | 60.5% |
| 2026-05-31 | 40 | BHP.AU 15.69% | 64.1% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 27 reports EWA filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2019-11-30 to 2026-05-31, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/ewa/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does EWA duplicate?
The ETF nearest to EWA is EPP: the two hold 64.1% of their weight in common, in the 43 companies both own, and 100.0% of EWA itself is also held there. Owning EWA alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means about half of the weight is held twice. EWA is close to contained in EPP.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of EWA held there | Of that ETF in EWA | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPP | 64.1% | 100.0% | 64.2% | 43 | |
| DVYA | 21.8% | 32.1% | 30.0% | 7 | |
| PICK | 19.5% | 20.4% | 19.6% | 6 | |
| IPAC | 15.4% | 100.0% | 15.5% | 43 | |
| VPL | 11.8% | 100.0% | 11.9% | 43 | |
| MXI | 11.1% | 23.3% | 11.1% | 8 | |
| ICOP | 9.6% | 16.7% | 9.6% | 3 | |
| IDLV | 8.2% | 36.9% | 8.2% | 16 | |
| EFG | 6.9% | 61.1% | 6.9% | 27 | |
| EFA | 6.7% | 100.0% | 6.7% | 43 | |
| ESGD | 6.7% | 78.7% | 6.8% | 23 | |
| HEFA | 6.6% | 100.0% | 6.7% | 43 |
VPL's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-07-31, filed 2026-09-28. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check EWA against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to EWA?
SOXX shares 0% of weight with EWA and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.53 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with EWA, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOXX | iShares Semiconductor ETF | 0.0% | 0.53 | 0 |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF | 0.0% | 0.58 | 0 |
| USRT | iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.59 | 0 |
| USMV | iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| VLUE | iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.65 | 0 |
| THRO | iShares U.S. Thematic Rotation Active ETF | 0.0% | 0.65 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.68 | 0 |
| SUSA | iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF | 0.0% | 0.69 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.50% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 2.98% |
| Total return, 1 year | 14.0% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 50.2% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 37.5% |
| Volatility, annualised | 16.6% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -20.5% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.83 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 65.5% |
| Largest single position | 14.5% |
| Assets under management | $1.2B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from EWA's SEC filing of 2025-12-19); 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 | 0.69loosely linked | 159 |
| QQQ | 0.58loosely linked | 186 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 14.6% |
| 2025 | 13.4% |
| 2024 | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 13.8% |
| 2022 | -5.9% |
One year
Where to go next
- EWM, iShares MSCI Malaysia ETF
- EWT, iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF
- EWY, iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
- GMF, State Street SPDR S&P Emerging Asia Pacific ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what EWA carries once you look through it
- Compare EWA 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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