iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF
$47.13−0.55 (−1.14%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $3.7B
- 1Y return
- +18.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.14%
- Holdings
- 67
- Volume · 30D
- 1.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $47.65
- 52W range
The ETF.net EWU Grade
Score 69 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 75Category 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.AScore 82Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 67Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 78Category rank
Our read on EWU
BTrading since 1996, EWU is the veteran one-ticker route into British blue chips: roughly 70 UK stocks in a single MSCI-tracked basket, held through Brexit, rate cycles and everything in between.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.K. equities, providing targeted exposure to companies in the United Kingdom and a way to express a single-country investment view.
Why people hold it
- A 1996 launch means this fund has tracked UK stocks through Brexit, a financial crisis and multiple rate cycles under one continuous ticker.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, so getting in and out rarely means fighting the order book.
- Rates among the stronger developed-market single-country funds in its peer group on cost, tracking and tradability together.
- Roughly 70 holdings tracking the MSCI United Kingdom Index (Net). Concentrated, transparent, no guessing what you own.
Worth knowing
- 0.50% a year is the category median, but cohort peers like FLKR and FLAU charge 0.09%. The liquidity and pedigree here cost extra.
- One country, about 70 names: UK policy and the index's sector mix drive results far more than in a global fund.
- Distributions arrive once or twice a year rather than quarterly, so income lands in lumps.
EWU Holdings
- Stocks
- 67
- 53%
- HSBA.L
Sectors
- Financials26.4%
- Cons. Staples14.3%
- Industrials13.9%
- Health Care12.7%
- Energy11.4%
- Materials9.1%
- Utilities4.9%
- Consumer Discr.3.7%
- Communication2.3%
- Technology0.7%
- Real Estate0.7%
Geography
- United Kingdom95.07%
- Switzerland2.62%
- Hong Kong1.04%
- Ireland1.03%
- Mexico0.24%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
EWU Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
EWU$11,847
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 | EWU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.0% |
| 1 month | −2.6% |
| 3 months | +4.3% |
| 1 year | +18.5% |
| 3 years | +18.7% |
| 5 years | +12.3% |
| 10 years | +8.2% |
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 | EWU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.0% | |
| 2025 | +35.0% | |
| 2024 | +6.8% | |
| 2023 | +12.4% | |
| 2022 | −4.4% | |
| 2021 | +18.2% | |
| 2020 | −11.8% |
EWU in the news
EWU Dividends
- 3.14%
- $1.50
- $0.67 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.67 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.83 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.81 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.73 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.68 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.75 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.62 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.47 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.58 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.88 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.57 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.33 |
EWU Risk
- 10.9%
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.
- 1.27
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.
- −24.9%
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.
- 0.71
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EWU Cost
0.50%
EWU0.50%
- The middle half of Developed Single Country funds
- Median 0.50%
13 of the 38 Developed Single Country funds charge less.