iShares MSCI France ETF
$43.68−0.57 (−1.29%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $353M
- 1Y return
- +4.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.97%
- Holdings
- 54
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $44.09
- 52W range
The ETF.net EWQ Grade
Score 59 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 81Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 46Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 58Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 62Category rank
Our read on EWQ
BOne of the original country ETFs, running since 1996: about 60 French large and mid caps in one ticker. Fee sits right at the typical developed-market country fund, with a nearly three-decade record behind it.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of French equities and provides targeted exposure to companies in France.
Why people hold it
- Launched in 1996, making it one of the oldest single-country funds still trading, with a long record tracking the MSCI France Index.ishares.com
- Does the job it advertises: follows its French equity index closely and lands in the upper half of developed-market single-country funds.
- The 0.50% fee matches the median for developed single-country ETFs, and the same sticker as iShares' UK (EWU) and Canada (EWC) siblings.
- A single-ticker way to dial France up or down instead of rebuilding a broad Europe sleeve stock by stock.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- One country, roughly 60 names. Concentration is the whole point here, and it swings harder than a broad Europe or global fund.
- Dollar-listed, euro-denominated assets underneath: currency moves feed straight into what you see.ishares.com
- Cheaper wrappers exist in this cohort (Franklin's country funds run 0.09%), though none of them point at France.
EWQ Holdings
- Stocks
- 54
- 60%
- SU.PA
Sectors
- Industrials32.9%
- Financials13.5%
- Consumer Discr.11.8%
- Health Care8.5%
- Cons. Staples8.3%
- Energy7.9%
- Materials7.1%
- Technology3.6%
- Communication2.8%
- Utilities2.4%
- Real Estate1.3%
Geography
- France89.45%
- Netherlands7.08%
- Luxembourg1.97%
- Switzerland1.48%
- United States0.03%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
EWQ Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
EWQ$10,400
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 | EWQ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.7% |
| 1 month | −5.9% |
| 3 months | −2.1% |
| 1 year | +4.0% |
| 3 years | +10.3% |
| 5 years | +6.5% |
| 10 years | +9.0% |
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 | EWQ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.7% | |
| 2025 | +28.9% | |
| 2024 | −5.6% | |
| 2023 | +21.7% | |
| 2022 | −12.0% | |
| 2021 | +21.5% | |
| 2020 | +2.9% |
EWQ in the news
EWQ Dividends
- 2.97%
- $1.32
- $1.09 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.09 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.95 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.91 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.25 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.82 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.12 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.95 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $1.04 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.43 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.16 |
EWQ Risk
- 13.9%
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.
- 0.43
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.
- −31.4%
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.
- 0.83
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EWQ Cost
0.50%
EWQ0.50%
- The middle half of Developed Single Country funds
- Median 0.50%
13 of the 38 Developed Single Country funds charge less.