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EW

EWY ISHARES MSCI SOUTH KOREA ETF

2026Q2 · CUSIP 464286772 · Sector: Other

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
592
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+122
Last quarter 470 → now 592
How unusual is that
Top 5%
Stronger buying than 99% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

592 funds held EWY at the end of 2026Q2, up 122 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 98.7% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. EWY has had 13 buying rushes in its history. It sits in the Other sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=223 2013Q4: holders=239 2014Q1: holders=229 2014Q2: holders=224 2014Q3: holders=217 2014Q4: holders=224 2015Q1: holders=229 2015Q2: holders=223 2015Q3: holders=185 2015Q4: holders=201 2016Q1: holders=199 2016Q2: holders=212 2016Q3: holders=209 2016Q4: holders=200 2017Q1: holders=213 2017Q2: holders=220 2017Q3: holders=215 2017Q4: holders=250 2018Q1: holders=244 2018Q2: holders=234 2018Q3: holders=226 2018Q4: holders=214 2019Q1: holders=228 2019Q2: holders=217 2019Q3: holders=213 2019Q4: holders=232 2020Q1: holders=204 2020Q2: holders=224 2020Q3: holders=229 2020Q4: holders=294 2021Q1: holders=294 2021Q2: holders=282 2021Q3: holders=251 2021Q4: holders=260 2022Q1: holders=244 2022Q2: holders=230 2022Q3: holders=211 2022Q4: holders=226 2023Q1: holders=238 2023Q2: holders=248 2023Q3: holders=242 2023Q4: holders=252 2024Q1: holders=264 2024Q2: holders=256 2024Q3: holders=238 2024Q4: holders=227 2025Q1: holders=238 2025Q2: holders=272 2025Q3: holders=290 2025Q4: holders=369 2026Q1: holders=470 2026Q2: holders=592 -122 -61 +0 +61 +122 166394622 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 13 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 5%
2026Q1 Top 5%
2025Q4 Top 10%
2025Q3 Top 20%
2025Q2 Top 10%
2023Q1 Top 20%
2020Q4 Top 10%
2020Q2 Top 20%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
176
Change in large funds
+36
Total value they hold
$18.6B
Funds buying for the first time
200
Funds that sold out entirely
78
Price change that quarter
Funds holding puts (bearish)
63
Funds holding calls (bullish)
41

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

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2026 Q3 holdings are due 2026-11-16. We will email you when the refreshed lists are live.