EWG holdings and overlap
iShares MSCI Germany ETF (EWG) holds 50 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are SAP (SAP.DE) at 12.93%, Siemens N AG (SIE.DE) at 11.52% and Allianz (ALV.DE) at 9.90%, and its ten largest make up 63.3% of the fund.
In its iShares file of 2026-10-27, EWG is 26.8% industrials, 23.3% financials and 17.0% technology by sector (no sector found for 2.1%), with none of it in mega-cap tech or in the ten largest US companies by market value. By country, 99.8% of EWG is in Germany.
What does EWG hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
SAP is 12.93% of EWG on its own, against a median largest position of 10.9% across the 25 Europe funds with a page here. The position EWG carries furthest above that group is Siemens N AG at 11.52% of the fund, a company the median fund in that group does not hold at all.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SAP.DE SAP | 12.93% | |
| 2 | SIE.DE Siemens N AG | 11.52% | |
| 3 | ALV.DE Allianz | 9.9% | |
| 4 | ENR.DE Siemens Energy N AG | 5.96% | |
| 5 | DTE.DE Deutsche Telekom N AG | 5.11% | |
| 6 | MUV2.DE Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gese | 4.21% | |
| 7 | IFX.DE Infineon Technologies AG | 4.11% | |
| 8 | DB1.DE Deutsche Boerse AG | 3.4% | |
| 9 | DHL.DE DHL AG | 3.24% | |
| 10 | DBK.DE Deutsche Bank AG | 2.97% | |
| 11 | RHM.DE Rheinmetall AG | 2.87% | |
| 12 | BAYN.DE Bayer AG | 2.72% | |
| 13 | BAS.DE BASF N | 2.71% | |
| 14 | EOAN.DE E.ON N | 2.5% | |
| 15 | RWE.DE RWE AG | 2.21% | |
| 16 | MBG.DE Mercedes-Benz Group N AG | 1.61% | |
| 17 | ADS.DE Adidas N AG | 1.52% | |
| 18 | CBK.DE Commerzbank AG | 1.34% | |
| 19 | HEI.DE Heidelberg Materials AG | 1.18% | |
| 20 | FRE.DE Fresenius N | 1.17% | |
| 21 | MRK.DE Merck | 1.12% | |
| 22 | DTG.DE Daimler Truck Holding E AG | 1.11% | |
| 23 | BMW.DE BMW | 1.1% | |
| 24 | MTX.DE Mtu Aero Engines Holding AG | 1.06% | |
| 25 | HNR1.DE Hannover Rueck | 1.01% | |
| 26 | VOW3.DE Volkswagen Non-Voting Pref AG | 0.85% | |
| 27 | SHL.DE Siemens Healthineers AG | 0.85% | |
| 28 | SY1.DE Symrise AG | 0.8% | |
| 29 | VNA.DE Vonovia SE | 0.71% | |
| 30 | HEN3.DE Henkel & Kgaa Pref AG | 0.71% | |
| 31 | G1A.DE Gea Group AG | 0.61% | |
| 32 | QIA.DE Qiagen | 0.56% | |
| 33 | TLX.DE Talanx AG | 0.45% | |
| 34 | CON.DE Continental AG | 0.44% | |
| 35 | FME.DE Fresenius Medical Care AG | 0.44% | |
| 36 | SRT3.DE Sartorius Pref AG | 0.44% | |
| 37 | BNR.DE Brenntag | 0.44% | |
| 38 | BEI.DE Beiersdorf AG | 0.44% | |
| 39 | HEN.DE Henkel AG | 0.39% | |
| 40 | KBX.DE Knorr Bremse AG | 0.38% | |
| 41 | HOT.DE Hochtief AG | 0.34% | |
| 42 | EVK.DE Evonik Industries AG | 0.33% | |
| 43 | ZAL.DE Zalando | 0.32% | |
| 44 | HAG.DE Hensoldt AG | 0.31% | |
| 45 | DHER.DE Delivery Hero | 0.31% | |
| 46 | P911.DE DR ING HC F Porsche PRF AG | 0.28% | |
| 47 | LHA.DE Deutsche Lufthansa AG | 0.26% | |
| 48 | NEM.DE Nemetschek | 0.26% | |
| 49 | PAH3.DE Porsche Automobil Holding Pref | 0.23% | |
| 50 | RAA.DE Rational AG | 0.19% |
The most recent file iShares has published for EWG is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 50 positions EWG holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 54 ETFs with a page here that hold SAP.DE, and how their weights compare with the 12.93% EWG gives it.
Category: Europe, 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 Germany, which this site counts in Europe. How categories are set.
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On the close of Friday, October 23, 2026, EWG neither created nor redeemed shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net outflow of $25 million.
From EWG's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is EWG split by sector and country?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Industrials | 26.8% | |
| Financials | 23.3% | |
| Technology | 17.0% | |
| Health care | 7.3% | |
| Consumer discretionary | 6.7% | |
| Communication services | 5.1% | |
| Utilities | 4.7% | |
| Materials | 4.7% | |
| Consumer staples | 1.5% | |
| Real estate | 0.7% | |
| No sector found | 2.1% |
| Country | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 99.8% |
From its iShares file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did EWG hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
In EWG's SEC filings, its largest position went from SAP SE (SAP.DE) at 10.50% on 2019-11-30 to Siemens AG (SIE.DE) at 11.97% on 2026-05-31, across 27 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-30 | 61 | SAP.DE 10.50% | 56.2% |
| 2020-11-30 | 63 | SAP.DE 9.12% | 51.8% |
| 2021-11-30 | 61 | SAP.DE 9.09% | 52.1% |
| 2022-11-30 | 61 | SAP.DE 9.60% | 54.8% |
| 2023-11-30 | 59 | SAP.DE 12.35% | 56.3% |
| 2024-11-30 | 56 | SAP.DE 16.42% | 60.0% |
| 2025-11-30 | 55 | SAP.DE 13.12% | 61.2% |
| 2026-05-31 | 54 | SIE.DE 11.97% | 62.4% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 27 reports EWG 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/ewg/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does EWG share with other ETFs?
The ETF nearest to EWG is FEZ: the two hold 29.2% of their weight in common, in the 16 companies both own, and 76.0% of EWG itself is also held there. No covered ETF holds more than that in common with EWG; it duplicates nothing here closely.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of EWG held there | Of that ETF in EWG | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FEZ | 29.2% | 76.0% | 29.3% | 16 | |
| EZU | 25.7% | 100.0% | 25.8% | 50 | |
| HEZU | 25.0% | 100.0% | 25.8% | 50 | |
| IEV | 13.4% | 97.5% | 13.5% | 42 | |
| EUFN | 13.0% | 23.3% | 13.1% | 7 | |
| IEUR | 12.3% | 100.0% | 12.3% | 50 | |
| VGK | 12.0% | 99.0% | 12.1% | 47 | |
| SPEU | 11.7% | 99.7% | 11.8% | 49 | |
| IVLU | 10.5% | 55.9% | 10.5% | 29 | |
| IDHQ | 10.0% | 40.8% | 10.0% | 8 | |
| EFAX | 9.3% | 97.5% | 9.3% | 48 | |
| EFG | 8.9% | 58.7% | 9.0% | 25 |
VGK'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 EWG against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to EWG?
USRT shares 0% of weight with EWG and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.38 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with EWG, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USRT | iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.38 | 0 |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF | 0.0% | 0.39 | 0 |
| SOXX | iShares Semiconductor ETF | 0.0% | 0.46 | 0 |
| REET | iShares Global REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.47 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.53 | 0 |
| VLUE | iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.53 | 0 |
| USMV | iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.55 | 0 |
| THRO | iShares U.S. Thematic Rotation Active ETF | 0.0% | 0.56 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.49% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 2.01% |
| Total return, 1 year | 4.7% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 69.8% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 37.3% |
| Volatility, annualised | 17.6% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -14.1% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.78 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 63.3% |
| Largest single position | 12.9% |
| Assets under management | $1.5B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from EWG's SEC filing of 2025-12-30); 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 | 0.61loosely linked | 149 |
| QQQ | 0.52loosely linked | 176 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.3% |
| 2025 | 35.8% |
| 2024 | 9.8% |
| 2023 | 23.3% |
| 2022 | -22.3% |
One year
Where to go next
- EWI, iShares MSCI Italy ETF
- EWL, iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF
- EWN, iShares MSCI Netherlands ETF
- EWO, iShares MSCI Austria ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what EWG carries once you look through it
- Compare EWG 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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