iShares MSCI Spain ETF
$60.42−1.13 (−1.84%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $2.2B
- 1Y return
- +30.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.70%
- Holdings
- 22
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $61.32
- 52W range
The ETF.net EWP Grade
Score 62 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 55Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 78Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 75Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 55Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 31Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 75Category rank
Our read on EWP
BSpain in one ticker. Trading since 1996, back when single-country ETFs were a novelty, EWP still does one job: track an index of Spanish equities and hold a capped basket of the country's largest listed companies.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of Spanish equities.
Why people hold it
- An ETF-industry original: launched in 1996, decades before most country funds existed, and still running the same plain mandate of tracking an index of Spanish stocks.
- The 25/50 caps in the index do real work in a top-heavy market: no single company can run away with the basket, and the biggest positions are limited as a group.ishares.com
- Undiluted country exposure. No Europe-wide blend, no US filler, just Spanish equities, which makes it a clean single dial for anyone tilting a portfolio toward one market.
- A billion-dollar-plus fund from the biggest ETF shop on the street, which is rare staying power for a single-country wrapper.
Worth knowing
- At 0.50% a year it runs above the typical index tracker and many times a broad core fund like VT at 0.06%. One country's worth of exposure carries a premium.
- The stocks trade in euros while the fund trades in dollars, so the currency swing rides along on top of whatever the Spanish market does.
- Volume is moderate rather than heavy, and cash comes once or twice a year instead of quarterly. Limit orders and patience are the tools here.
EWP Holdings
- Stocks
- 22
- 74%
- SAN.MC
Sectors
- Financials45.4%
- Utilities20.0%
- Industrials14.4%
- Technology5.9%
- Consumer Discr.4.4%
- Energy4.4%
- Communication2.7%
- Real Estate2.6%
Geography
- Spain94.44%
- Netherlands3.83%
- United Kingdom1.71%
- United States0.02%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
EWP Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | EWP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.0% |
| 1 month | −2.2% |
| 3 months | +3.5% |
| 1 year | +30.9% |
| 3 years | +34.6% |
| 5 years | +21.5% |
| 10 years | +12.1% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | EWP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.0% | |
| 2025 | +78.0% | |
| 2024 | +5.8% | |
| 2023 | +30.3% | |
| 2022 | −5.2% | |
| 2021 | +0.3% | |
| 2020 | −4.0% |
EWP in the news
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EWP Dividends
- 2.70%
- $1.66
- $0.92 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.92 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.74 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.48 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.82 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.47 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.35 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.37 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.37 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.44 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.43 |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Jan 6, 2021 | $0.07 |
EWP Risk
- 15.9%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.66
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −30.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.86
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EWP Cost
- The middle half of Developed Single Country funds
- Median 0.50%
13 of the 38 Developed Single Country funds charge less.