EZA holdings and overlap
iShares MSCI South Africa ETF (EZA) holds 27 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are Anglogold Ashanti PLC (ANG.ZA) at 11.77%, Gold Fields (GFI.ZA) at 8.52% and Naspers Limited (NPN.ZA) at 8.32%, and its ten largest make up 62.7% of the fund.
In its iShares file of 2026-10-27, EZA holds none of the mega-cap tech companies and none of the ten largest US companies by market value. By country, 99.7% of EZA is in South Africa.
What does EZA hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
EZA spreads its weight across 27 positions, against a median of 57 across the 6 Middle East and Africa funds with a page here. The position EZA carries furthest above that group is Gold Fields at 8.52% of the fund, a company the median fund in that group does not hold at all.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANG.ZA Anglogold Ashanti PLC | 11.77% | |
| 2 | GFI.ZA Gold Fields | 8.52% | |
| 3 | NPN.ZA Naspers Limited | 8.32% | |
| 4 | FSR.ZA Firstrand Ltd | 7.4% | |
| 5 | SBK.ZA Standard Bank Group | 6.3% | |
| 6 | MTN.ZA MTN Group | 4.95% | |
| 7 | CPI.ZA Capitec | 4.71% | |
| 8 | VAL.ZA Valterra Platinum Ltd | 3.84% | |
| 9 | ABG.ZA Absa Group | 3.55% | |
| 10 | SOL.ZA Sasol | 3.3% | |
| 11 | SHP.ZA Shoprite Holdings Ltd | 3.11% | |
| 12 | BID.ZA Bid Corporation | 3.0% | |
| 13 | SLM.ZA Sanlam Limited Ltd | 2.93% | |
| 14 | DSY.ZA Discovery | 2.88% | |
| 15 | IMP.ZA Impala Platinum | 2.86% | |
| 16 | HAR.ZA Harmony Gold Mining Company Limite | 2.84% | |
| 17 | NED.ZA Nedbank Group Ltd | 2.49% | |
| 18 | SSW.ZA Sibanye Stillwater | 2.1% | |
| 19 | VOD.ZA Vodacom Group Ltd | 2.05% | |
| 20 | REM.ZA Remgro | 2.05% | |
| 21 | NRP.ZA Nepi Rockcastle | 1.79% | |
| 22 | NPH.ZA Northam Platinum Hldgs Ltd | 1.69% | |
| 23 | BVT.ZA Bidvest Group | 1.65% | |
| 24 | OUT.ZA Outsurance Group | 1.59% | |
| 25 | RNI.ZA Reinet Investments S.C.A. | 1.39% | |
| 26 | PPH.ZA Pepkor Holdings SHS Ltd | 1.39% | |
| 27 | CLS.ZA Clicks Group | 1.24% |
The most recent file iShares has published for EZA is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 27 positions EZA holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 17 ETFs with a page here that hold ANG.ZA, and how their weights compare with the 11.77% EZA gives it.
Category: Middle East and Africa, 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 South Africa, which this site counts in Middle East and Africa. How categories are set.
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On the close of Friday, October 23, 2026, EZA neither created nor redeemed shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net outflow of $6.6 million.
From EZA's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is EZA split by sector and country?
A sector is found for 38.8% of EZA's stock weight, under the 50% from which this page states sector weights; the weights found are in the fund's JSON file.
| Country | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 99.7% |
From its iShares file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did EZA hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
In EZA's SEC filings, its largest position went from Naspers Ltd (NPN.ZA) at 22.66% on 2019-11-30 to AngloGold Ashanti PLC (AU) at 12.06% on 2026-05-31, across 27 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-30 | 40 | NPN.ZA 22.66% | 55.6% |
| 2020-11-30 | 37 | NPN.ZA 23.91% | 57.0% |
| 2021-11-30 | 35 | NPN.ZA 14.16% | 57.0% |
| 2022-11-30 | 37 | NPN.ZA 13.85% | 57.9% |
| 2023-11-30 | 34 | NPN.ZA 17.23% | 62.3% |
| 2024-11-30 | 31 | NPN.ZA 16.00% | 63.7% |
| 2025-11-30 | 27 | NPN.ZA 13.32% | 66.2% |
| 2026-05-31 | 27 | AU 12.06% | 65.2% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 27 reports EZA 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/eza/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does EZA share with other ETFs?
The ETF nearest to EZA is RING: the two hold 10.4% of their weight in common, in the 3 companies both own, and 23.2% of EZA itself is also held there. EZA barely overlaps any covered ETF.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of EZA held there | Of that ETF in EZA | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RING | 10.4% | 23.2% | 10.5% | 3 | |
| EDIV | 9.8% | 19.5% | 10.3% | 6 | |
| EELV | 7.4% | 47.0% | 7.4% | 15 | |
| LDEM | 6.2% | 75.1% | 6.2% | 19 | |
| EQLT | 5.9% | 52.1% | 6.0% | 11 | |
| FNDE | 4.8% | 59.6% | 4.8% | 16 | |
| PIE | 4.6% | 24.0% | 4.6% | 6 | |
| PXH | 4.2% | 74.5% | 4.2% | 19 | |
| ESGE | 4.0% | 63.4% | 4.0% | 14 | |
| EMXC | 3.9% | 100.0% | 3.9% | 27 | |
| EEMX | 3.1% | 93.8% | 3.1% | 25 | |
| EEM | 3.1% | 100.0% | 3.1% | 27 |
FNDE's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-08-31, filed 2026-10-27. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check EZA against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to EZA?
USRT shares 0% of weight with EZA and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.37 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with EZA, 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% | 0.37 | 0 |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF | 0.0% | 0.38 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.45 | 0 |
| REET | iShares Global REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.45 | 0 |
| VLUE | iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.47 | 0 |
| USMV | iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.48 | 0 |
| THRO | iShares U.S. Thematic Rotation Active ETF | 0.0% | 0.50 | 0 |
| IJH | iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.52 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.59% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 7.88% |
| Total return, 1 year | 8.8% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 87.3% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 67.3% |
| Volatility, annualised | 27.1% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -23.5% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 1.04 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 62.7% |
| Largest single position | 11.8% |
| Assets under management | $0.5B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from EZA'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 | 0.53loosely linked | 199 |
| QQQ | 0.48loosely linked | 251 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | -4.4% |
| 2025 | 75.2% |
| 2024 | 7.2% |
| 2023 | 1.5% |
| 2022 | -5.2% |
One year
Where to go next
- KSA, iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF
- KWT, iShares MSCI Kuwait ETF
- QAT, iShares MSCI Qatar ETF
- UAE, iShares MSCI UAE ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what EZA carries once you look through it
- Compare EZA 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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