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iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF EWU

Issuer: iShares SEC registrant: iShares Trust Equity · International
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Last price 47.76 USD Change: Up +0.42 Percent change: Up +0.89%

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
$3.4B
As of 31 May 2026
Holdings
76
As of 31 May 2026
12-month distribution yield
3.13%
Twice a year
Asset class
Equity
From holdings

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (EWU) 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$47.76 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$3.45 billion as of 31 May 2026. Its latest holdings report lists 76 holdings as of 31 May 2026. Over the last 12 months it paid distributions of US$1.50 a unit, a 12-month distribution yield of 3.13%, 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
$3,447,056,968
Total assets
$3,449,002,221
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 76 positions, as of 31 May 2026. Weight is the percent of net assets the fund reported.

EWU top holdings as of 31 May 2026
# Holding Identifier Weight Value (USD) Type Country Currency
1 HSBC HOLDINGS PLC GB0005405286 10.06% $346.8M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
2 ASTRAZENECA PLC GB0009895292 8.98% $309.6M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
3 SHELL PLC GB00BP6MXD84 7.51% $259.0M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
4 ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC GB00B63H8491 4.71% $162.5M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
5 BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. GB0002875804 4.20% $144.9M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
6 UNILEVER PLC GB00BVZK7T90 3.83% $132.1M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
7 RIO TINTO PLC GB0007188757 3.74% $128.9M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
8 BP P.L.C. GB0007980591 3.47% $119.6M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
9 GSK PLC GB00BN7SWP63 3.21% $110.8M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
10 BARCLAYS PLC GB0031348658 2.64% $90.9M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
11 BAE SYSTEMS PLC GB0002634946 2.55% $87.8M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
12 LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC GB0008706128 2.51% $86.6M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
13 NATIONAL GRID PLC GB00BDR05C01 2.49% $85.8M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
14 GLENCORE PLC JE00B4T3BW64 2.37% $81.6M Equity (common) Jersey GBP
15 NATWEST GROUP PLC GB00BM8PJY71 2.01% $69.2M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
16 ANGLO AMERICAN PLC ANGLO AMERICAN ORD NPV GB00BTK05J60 1.87% $64.4M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
17 RELX PLC GB00B2B0DG97 1.85% $63.9M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
18 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP PLC GB00B0SWJX34 1.73% $59.6M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
19 COMPASS GROUP PLC GB00BD6K4575 1.70% $58.6M Equity (common) United Kingdom USD
20 STANDARD CHARTERED PLC GB0004082847 1.60% $55.3M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
21 DIAGEO PLC GB0002374006 1.42% $49.1M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
22 HALEON PLC GB00BMX86B70 1.25% $43.2M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
23 RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC RECKITT BENCK GRP GB00BSZBP530 1.24% $42.7M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
24 SSE PLC GB0007908733 1.18% $40.6M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP
25 TESCO PLC GB00BLGZ9862 1.15% $39.8M Equity (common) United Kingdom GBP

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

All 76 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) 99.03%
Other 0.33%
Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) 0.03%
Equity derivatives 0.01%

Country

Country by weight
CountryWeightBar
United Kingdom 94.22%
Jersey 3.62%
United States 1.05%
Switzerland 0.39%
Isle of Man 0.14%
Not stated or supranational <0.01%
United Arab Emirates 0.00%

The country each issuer is assigned to in the report.

Currency exposure

Currency exposure by weight
CurrencyWeightBar
British pound (GBP) 96.99%
US dollar (USD) 2.42%
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
$1.4950
2 payments per unit
12-month yield
3.13%
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 ($1.4950) ÷ latest price ($47.76) × 100 = 3.13%. 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 (10 payments)
EWU distributions per unit by ex-date
Ex-dateAmount per unit
15 Jun 2026$0.6660
16 Dec 2025$0.8290
16 Jun 2025$0.8110
17 Dec 2024$0.7260
11 Jun 2024$0.6830
20 Dec 2023$0.7470
7 Jun 2023$0.6220
13 Dec 2022$0.4700
9 Jun 2022$0.5800
13 Dec 2021$0.8760

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

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