Summary
iShares Asia 50 ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by IShares. Positions inside: 61. The ten largest make up 64% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $4.55B
- Positions
- 61
- Dividend yield
- 1.79%
- Running since
- 2007
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $4.55B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $48.3M changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 9.3%.
- It has been running since 2007.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 64% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- Costs of 0.50% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 56% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -14%
- 3 months
- -11%
- This year
- +23%
- 1 year
- +23%
- 3 years
- +111%
- 5 years
- +49%
- 10 years
- +142%
- Avg. market cap
- $632.3B
- P/E
- 8.3x
- Forward P/E
- 6.9x
- P/S
- 1.9x
- P/B
- 1.8x
- P/FCF
- 8.7x
- EV/EBITDA
- 7.6x
- Dividend yield
- 1.02%
- ROIC
- 21.4%
- ROE
- 32.4%
- Gross margin
- 47.2%
- Operating margin
- 38.6%
- Net margin
- 12.0%
- Payout ratio
- 8.5%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- -0.1x
- Beta
- 1.22
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 99% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 23Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 2330.TW 23%
- 2 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005930.KS 13%
- 3 00SK hynix Inc. 000660.KS 5.8%
- 4 99Alibaba Group Holding Limited 9988.HK 4.9%
- 5 07Tencent Holdings Limited 0700.HK 4.9%
- 6 24MediaTek Inc. 2454.TW 3.7%
- 7 09China Construction Bank Corporation 0939.HK 2.9%
- 8 D0DBS Group Holdings Ltd D05.SI 2.5%
- 9 12AIA Group Limited 1299.HK 2.3%
- 10 23Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 2317.TW 1.9%
Positions in the fund: 61. The ten largest make up 64% of it.
Composition as of Nov 6, 2026.
Where is it spread?
Spread outBy sector
- Industrials 3.0%
- Energy 0.5%
- Real estate 0.4%
- Other 96%
By country
- Taiwan 39%
- South Korea 28%
- China 22%
- Singapore 5.7%
- Other countries 4.9%
By company size
- Mega cap 60%
- Large cap 40%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Industrials (3.0%). Largest country: Taiwan (39%). Largest size group: Mega cap (60%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $50.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,416
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $50.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $2,416.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +9.3%
- Deepest drop
- -56%
- Yearly volatility
- 34%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 9.3%. Deepest drop in these years: 56% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 1.79%
- Payments a year
- 2
- Last payment
- $0.51
Over the last 12 months it paid $2.14 per share, which is 1.79% of today's price. The last payment was $0.51 on Jun 15, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $48.3M
- Shares a day
- 404K
On an average day about $48.3M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 8.3
- Average Bulios Score
- 75 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 32%
- Fairly valued 3.4%
- Overvalued 65%
On average the companies inside trade for 8.3 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 65% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 99% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
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Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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IA IAA.AX iShares Asia 50 ETF | Australia | 0.29% | $1.06B | +16% | Pays out | 66% |
IF IFFF.SW iShares MSCI AC Far East ex-Japan UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.74% | $1.17B | +15% | Pays out | 65% |
IQ IQQF.DE iShares MSCI AC Far East ex-Japan UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.74% | $1.46B | +20% | Pays out | 65% |
IF IFFI.AS iShares MSCI AC Far East ex-Japan UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.74% | $1.18B | +16% | Reinvests | 65% |