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iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund EWA

Issuer: iShares SEC registrant: iShares, Inc. Equity · International
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Last price 29.15 USD Change: Up +0.32 Percent change: Up +1.11%

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Observed · 1 day ago Quotes may be delayed

Expense ratio
0.50%
Prospectus 30 Dec 2025
Net assets
$1.5B
As of 31 May 2026
Holdings
50
As of 31 May 2026
12-month distribution yield
2.91%
Twice a year
Asset class
Equity
From holdings

iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund (EWA) is an exchange-traded fund listed on NYSE Arca in the United States, issued by iShares. Its category is Equity · International (equity). Its last price was US$29.15 on 20 Oct 2026. Its expense ratio is 0.5% a year, from its prospectus dated 30 Dec 2025. It reported net assets of US$1.46 billion as of 31 May 2026. Its latest holdings report lists 50 holdings as of 31 May 2026. Over the last 12 months it paid distributions of US$0.85 a unit, a 12-month distribution yield of 2.91%, paid twice a year.

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Fees

Total annual operating expenses (gross)
0.50%
Net, after fee waivers or reimbursements
No waiver stated
Management fee
0.49%
Prospectus date
30 Dec 2025
Filed with the SEC
19 Dec 2025

Source: SEC prospectus risk/return data sets (opens in a new tab) Filed

Size and reporting

Net assets
$1,459,037,292
Total assets
$1,459,680,680
Holdings as of
31 May 2026
Report made public
27 Jul 2026 (57 days after the month end)

Net assets are for the whole fund series, which for some funds (Vanguard's, for example) also includes mutual fund share classes.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Filed

Top holdings

Largest 25 of 50 positions, as of 31 May 2026. Weight is the percent of net assets the fund reported.

EWA top holdings as of 31 May 2026
# Holding Identifier Weight Value (USD) Type Country Currency
1 BHP GROUP LIMITED BHP GROUP LTD AU000000BHP4 15.69% $228.9M Equity (common) Australia AUD
2 COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA AU000000CBA7 13.76% $200.8M Equity (common) Australia AUD
3 WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION AU000000WBC1 6.14% $89.5M Equity (common) Australia AUD
4 NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LTD AU000000NAB4 5.71% $83.4M Equity (common) Australia AUD
5 ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LTD AU000000ANZ3 5.30% $77.3M Equity (common) Australia AUD
6 WESFARMERS LIMITED WESFARMERS LTD AU000000WES1 4.51% $65.8M Equity (common) Australia AUD
7 MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED MACQUARIE GROUP LTD AU000000MQG1 4.31% $62.9M Equity (common) Australia AUD
8 RIO TINTO LIMITED RIO TINTO LTD AU000000RIO1 3.45% $50.3M Equity (common) Australia AUD
9 GOODMAN GROUP AU000000GMG2 3.22% $47.0M Other Australia AUD
10 WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD AU0000224040 2.89% $42.1M Equity (common) Australia AUD
11 CSL LIMITED CSL LTD AU000000CSL8 2.34% $34.1M Equity (common) Australia AUD
12 TRANSURBAN GROUP AU000000TCL6 2.32% $33.9M Other Australia AUD
13 WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED WOOLWORTHS GROUP LTD AU000000WOW2 2.14% $31.3M Equity (common) Australia AUD
14 FORTESCUE LTD FORTESCUE METALS GROUP LTD AU000000FMG4 1.89% $27.5M Equity (common) Australia AUD
15 QBE INSURANCE GROUP LIMITED QBE INSURANCE GROUP LTD AU000000QBE9 1.70% $24.8M Equity (common) Australia AUD
16 COLES GROUP LIMITED COLES GROUP LTD AU0000030678 1.45% $21.2M Equity (common) Australia AUD
17 ARISTOCRAT LEISURE LIMITED ARISTOCRAT LEISURE LTD AU000000ALL7 1.38% $20.1M Equity (common) Australia AUD
18 NORTHERN STAR RESOURCES LTD AU000000NST8 1.29% $18.8M Equity (common) Australia AUD
19 SANTOS LIMITED SANTOS LTD AU000000STO6 1.27% $18.5M Equity (common) Australia AUD
20 EVOLUTION MINING LIMITED EVOLUTION MINING LTD AU000000EVN4 1.24% $18.1M Equity (common) Australia AUD
21 BRAMBLES LIMITED BRAMBLES LTD AU000000BXB1 1.12% $16.4M Equity (common) Australia AUD
22 SOUTH32 LIMITED SOUTH32 LTD AU000000S320 1.08% $15.8M Equity (common) Australia AUD
23 TELSTRA GROUP LIMITED TELSTRA CORP LTD AU000000TLS2 1.02% $14.9M Equity (common) Australia AUD
24 SCENTRE GROUP AU000000SCG8 0.99% $14.5M Other Australia AUD
25 SUNCORP GROUP LIMITED SUNCORP GROUP LTD AU000000SUN6 0.94% $13.7M Equity (common) Australia AUD

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Made public Holdings as of 31 May 2026

All 50 stored holdings

Breakdowns

Sums of reported weights over every position in the report. Totals can differ from 100% because of derivatives, borrowing and cash.

Asset type

Asset type by weight
TypeWeightBar
Equity (common) 91.19%
Other 8.28%
Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) 0.07%
Equity derivatives <0.01%

Country

Country by weight
CountryWeightBar
Australia 98.84%
New Zealand 0.64%
United States 0.07%
Not stated or supranational <0.01%

The country each issuer is assigned to in the report.

Currency exposure

Currency exposure by weight
CurrencyWeightBar
Australian dollar (AUD) 99.48%
US dollar (USD) 0.07%
Euro (EUR) <0.01%

The currency each holding is denominated in. Currency hedges are not netted off, so a hedged fund still shows its holdings' currencies.

Sector

No sector data

None of this fund's holdings matched a stock listed on this site, so no sector is shown.

Partial coverage: sectors are known for 0.0% of net assets (0% of the fund's equity weight), the holdings matched by CUSIP or ticker to US stocks listed on this site. The rest is not assigned a sector.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Holdings as of

Distributions

Paid in the last 12 months
$0.8490
2 payments per unit
12-month yield
2.91%
Distributions only, not total return
Frequency
Twice a year
From the gaps between ex-dates
Latest ex-date
15 Jun 2026

12-month yield = distributions per unit with an ex-date in the last 12 months ($0.8490) ÷ latest price ($29.15) × 100 = 2.91%. It looks back, so it is not a forecast; special distributions in the window are included.

Why a distribution yield is not the fund's return: yield vs total return

Distribution history table (11 payments)
EWA distributions per unit by ex-date
Ex-dateAmount per unit
15 Jun 2026$0.4050
16 Dec 2025$0.4440
16 Jun 2025$0.3970
17 Dec 2024$0.4170
11 Jun 2024$0.4690
20 Dec 2023$0.4880
7 Jun 2023$0.4170
13 Dec 2022$0.4300
9 Jun 2022$0.7430
30 Dec 2021$0.2190
13 Dec 2021$0.6670

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Checked · 2 days ago Amounts are adjusted for later unit splits

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