iShares MSCI Mexico ETF
$73.55−0.91 (−1.22%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $1.6B
- 1Y return
- +15.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.31%
- Holdings
- 39
- Volume · 30D
- 1.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $73.74
- 52W range
The ETF.net EWW Grade
Score 76 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 88Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 70Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 51Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 100Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 61Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on EWW
AMexico in one ticker, doing that job since 1996. Roughly 40 of the country's biggest listed names, capped so no single company runs the show, for 0.50% a year.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of Mexican equities and provides targeted exposure to companies in Mexico.
Why people hold it
- 0.50% a year, below the typical single-country emerging-market fund. Cheap is not the pitch here, but you are not paying a premium for the exposure.
- A billion-dollar-plus fund that trades actively, which is why it has long been the default way US investors get Mexico exposure in a brokerage account.
- The 25/50 index rules keep any one issuer from swallowing the portfolio, a real safeguard in a market where a handful of giants dominate the exchange.ishares.com
- Tracks its MSCI Mexico index tightly and ranks among the strongest builds in the single-country emerging-market group.
Worth knowing
- About 40 stocks, one country, one currency. Peso moves and Mexican politics land straight in the return, with no diversification to soften them.
- FLMX tracks Mexico for 0.19%. If cost is the deciding factor, that gap is the trade-off against EWW's deeper trading and longer track record.
- Distributions come once or twice a year, not monthly. This is an equity exposure vehicle, not a steady income line.
EWW Holdings
- Stocks
- 39
- 65%
- GMEXICOB.MX
Sectors
- Materials26.1%
- Cons. Staples24.8%
- Financials20.1%
- Industrials11.7%
- Communication9.0%
- Real Estate6.5%
- Consumer Discr.1.2%
- Health Care0.4%
Geography
- Mexico100.00%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
EWW 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 | EWW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.0% |
| 1 month | −3.8% |
| 3 months | −2.0% |
| 1 year | +15.1% |
| 3 years | +11.4% |
| 5 years | +12.1% |
| 10 years | +7.1% |
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 | EWW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.0% | |
| 2025 | +53.7% | |
| 2024 | −28.2% | |
| 2023 | +40.4% | |
| 2022 | +1.3% | |
| 2021 | +20.3% | |
| 2020 | −3.1% |
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EWW Dividends
- 3.31%
- $2.46
- $1.14 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.14 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.33 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $1.08 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $1.58 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.48 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.03 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.46 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $1.05 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.75 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.66 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.39 |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Jan 6, 2021 | $0.14 |
EWW Risk
- 20.2%
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.
- 0.41
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.
- −31.2%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EWW Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Single Country funds
- Median 0.59%
2 of the 21 Emerging Markets Single Country funds charge less.