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iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan (AAXJ)

Equity ETF · iShares (BlackRock) · NASDAQ · 955 holdings
$107.13 ▲ +0.73 (0.69%)
At close · USD · Volume 538,618
52-week range
$87.98 – $124.89
Day's range
$106.22 – $107.54
1-year total return
+15.2%

AAXJ price chart

Daily, split-corrected, distributions markedEnd-of-day prices

AAXJ fund facts

FundiShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF
TickerAAXJ · NASDAQ
Issuer (by our rules)iShares (BlackRock)
Category (by our rules)Equity
Expense ratio0.72%
Holdings955
Net assets (fund, SEC)$3.7B
Yield (last 12 months)1.44%
DistributionsSemi-annual
52-week range$87.98 – $124.89
Average volume (3 months)479,668
First price in our data15 Aug 2008
Issuer and category are assigned by StocksXray rules from the fund name. Expense ratio and net assets come from SEC filings; where a fund does not file them (for example grantor trusts) the field stays empty.

Returns and risk

1 month
−9.6%
3 months
−2.5%
6 months
−1.4%
Year to date
+15.5%
1 year
+15.2%
3 years a year
+22.9%
5 years a year
+6.1%
10 years a year
+8.0%
Volatility (1 year)
26.2%
Largest drop, last year
−14.9%
Largest drop in our data
−49.4%
Total return includes distributions, from end-of-day prices adjusted for splits and distributions, to 26 Oct 2026. Periods of 3 years and longer are annualised and shown only when the fund's history is long enough. Volatility is the standard deviation of daily returns over the last year, annualised. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Cost: expense ratio

0.72% a year

On $10,000 invested that is about $72 a year in fund costs, taken out of the fund's assets.

Source: the fund's prospectus, as filed with the SEC on 21 Nov 2025 (risk/return summary data). Brokerage commissions and the bid-ask spread are separate costs.

Income: distributions

Paid, last 12 months
1.55 USD
Yield on today's price
1.44%
Frequency
Semi-annual
Latest ex-date
15 Jun 2026
Full AAXJ dividend history →
Cash paid per current share (restated for share splits), before tax, from our market-data provider.

AAXJ top holdings

#HoldingWeight
1 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 17.21%
2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.68%
3 SK hynix Inc. 5.93%
4 BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional; SL Agency Shares 3.68%
5 Tencent Holdings Limited 3.55%
6 Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.41%
7 MediaTek Inc. 1.46%
8 DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.12%
9 AIA Group Limited 0.99%
10 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.95%
The top 10 make up 45.0% of the fund, out of 955 holdings.
Positions as of 31 Jul 2026, from the fund's Form N-PORT filed with the SEC. Public N-PORT holdings are quarter-end positions published about 60 days later, so they can be months old and the fund may have changed since.

Institutional holders of AAXJ (Form 13F)

At 30 June 2026, 221 institutional managers reported owning AAXJ shares to the SEC. Against 31 March 2026:

27 new62 added67 reduced63 unchanged19 sold out

Among the 238 managers that filed in both quarters and held AAXJ in at least one of them, the shares they report changed by +2.6%, about +$52M at the 30 Jun 2026 price (share counts restated for splits).

#ManagerSharesValueChange in the quarter
1 JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.18M $380M +13.9%
2 Analyst IMS Investment Management Services Ltd. 2.38M $285M +7.4%
3 Morgan Stanley 1.28M $153M +9.0%
4 J.Safra Asset Management Corp 874,689 $104M Unchanged
5 Meitav Investment House Ltd 655,751 $78M New position
6 Horizon Investments, LLC 650,335 $78M New position
7 CIBC Bancorp USA Inc. 594,808 $71M −15.0%
8 PGIM Custom Harvest LLC 482,898 $58M +38.4%
9 Kranot Hishtalmut Le Morim Ve Gananot Havera Menahelet LTD 397,864 $47M New position
10 Bank of America Corp 348,109 $42M −2.9%

Sold out since 31 March 2026, largest first: Pragma Gestao De Patrimonio Ltd (held $98M), Alliancebernstein L.P. (held $35M), Citadel Advisors LLC (held $15M).

Quarter endManagers reportingReported shares, change vs the quarter before
30 Jun 2026221+2.6%
31 Mar 2026215+10.3%
31 Dec 2025210−15.8%
30 Sep 2025199+21.5%
30 Jun 2025189–
Quarter-end positions, filed with the SEC up to 45 days later, so managers may have bought or sold since. Filings in this data run to 31 Aug 2026. Form 13F covers US institutional managers with at least $100 million in reportable securities and lists long positions only: options, short positions and smaller or non-US holders are not in it. A manager is a filer, not necessarily the final owner, and shares held for clients can be reported by more than one manager, so the lists overlap and are not a split of the fund; for the same reason we show no share of shares outstanding. Value is shares times the quarter-end close; change compares with the quarter before and is restated for splits. "Smart money" is a label some analysts put on large institutions: these figures show who reported holding the fund, not that they were right, and they say nothing about where the price goes next. Source: SEC Form 13F data sets, updated when the SEC publishes the next quarter.

AAXJ: frequently asked questions

What is AAXJ?

AAXJ is the iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF, issued by iShares (BlackRock), listed on NASDAQ. By our rules it is classed as "Equity". Its latest SEC filing lists 955 holdings.

What is the expense ratio of AAXJ?

AAXJ charges 0.72% a year, according to its prospectus filed with the SEC on 21 Nov 2025. On $10,000 that is about $72 a year in fund costs.

Does AAXJ pay dividends?

Yes. AAXJ paid 1.55 per share over the last 12 months, semi-annual, a trailing yield of 1.44% on today's price. The latest ex-dividend date was 15 Jun 2026.

What does AAXJ hold?

The largest holdings in the latest SEC filing are Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (17.2%), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (7.7%), SK hynix Inc. (5.9%). The top 10 together make up 45.0% of the fund.

How has AAXJ performed?

Total return including distributions to 26 Oct 2026: 1 year +15.2%, 3 years +22.9% a year, 5 years +6.1% a year. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Where the numbers come from

Prices and distributions end-of-day data from our market-data provider; returns are our own calculations from it.
Expense ratio and holdings SEC filings (prospectus risk/return data and Form N-PORT).
Category, issuer and leverage assigned by StocksXray rules from the fund name.
X-Ray look-through our scores applied to the SEC holdings.
Institutional holders SEC Form 13F data sets: quarter-end positions of US institutional managers, our own arithmetic on them.
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