September 2026 — what changed

iShares MSCI World ex-USA UCITS ETF · IE000ZDDJWZ5 · XUES · snapshots compared: 20 Aug → 31 August 2026

In brief: 3 holdings added and 17 removed from the basket · large-holding weights nearly unchanged · monthly return +2.3% · costs and key facts unchanged.

Basket — holdings added (3)

Holding	Weight on entry
DIPLOMA PLC	0.05%
KOKUSAI ELECTRIC	0.04%
AYVENS SA	0.02%

Basket — holdings removed (17)

Holding	Weight on exit
SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS INC	0.12%
STOCKLAND STAPLED UNITS LTD	0.03%
CAR GROUP	0.03%
DESCARTES SYSTEMS GROUP	0.03%
SCOUT24 N	0.03%
COCHLEAR	0.02%
FIRSTSERVICE SUBORDINATE VOTING	0.02%
JFE HOLDINGS	0.02%
and 9 more	≤ 0.02%

Holdings compared (excluding cash instruments): 741 → 727.

Holding weights

No change beyond ±0.25 points.

Top 10 — before and after

Holding	6 Aug	31 Aug
ASML HOLDING	2.61%	2.56%
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC	1.35%	1.38%
ROCHE PS PAR AG	1.22%	1.20%
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA	1.16%	1.12%
NOVARTIS AG	1.13%	1.09%
SHELL PLC	0.98%	0.99%
NESTLE SA	1.00%	0.99%
ASTRAZENECA PLC	0.95%	0.97%
MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP	0.94%	0.96%
SIEMENS N AG	0.92%	0.94%

Combined top-10 weight: 12.3% → 12.2%.

Sectors — where the weight moved

Materials

7.1 → 7.5

Financials

28.2 → 27.9

Industrials

17.9 → 17.7

Energy

5.2 → 5.4

Consumer Staples

6.3 → 6.1

Bars scaled to the change: orange = up, grey = down. Basket percentages at the two snapshots.

Countries

Country	6 Aug	31 Aug
United States	0.5%	0.2%
Japan	20.5%	20.8%
France	8.8%	8.6%

The three countries that moved the most between the two snapshots.

Monthly return

+2.3% in USD (NAV 5.26 → 5.38, 31 Jul → 31 Aug). No distributions in the month.

Assets over the month

528,362 $ → 2 mln $ (issuer’s daily series).

Costs and key facts

TER	0.15% — unchanged
Transaction costs (KID)	0.01% — unchanged
Index, name, policy	no change in the period

Issuer-declared basket snapshots, compared by Rebalix. Each section states its own dates: the basket comparison uses the issuer file dates; top 10 and breakdowns the dates of the two archived snapshots. Weight changes are shown above ±0.25 points (the archive records them from ±0.1). We record the past: nothing on this page is a recommendation.