Schedule of Investments (unaudited) November 30, 2020 | iShares® MSCI United Kingdom ETF (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets) |
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Common Stocks | ||||||||
Aerospace & Defense — 1.6% | ||||||||
BAE Systems PLC | 4,081,031 | $ | 27,459,823 | |||||
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 10,605,982 | 14,966,601 | ||||||
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42,426,424 | ||||||||
Banks — 9.3% | ||||||||
Barclays PLC(a) | 22,008,568 | 39,537,124 | ||||||
HSBC Holdings PLC | 25,839,546 | 133,934,867 | ||||||
Lloyds Banking Group PLC(a) | 89,808,323 | 42,707,860 | ||||||
Natwest Group PLC(a) | 6,172,120 | 12,739,171 | ||||||
Standard Chartered PLC(a) | 3,403,597 | 20,547,832 | ||||||
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249,466,854 | ||||||||
Beverages — 4.5% | ||||||||
Coca-Cola HBC AG | 255,454 | 7,373,364 | ||||||
Diageo PLC | 2,965,522 | 114,022,602 | ||||||
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121,395,966 | ||||||||
Capital Markets — 3.5% | ||||||||
3i Group PLC | 1,234,435 | 17,642,178 | ||||||
Hargreaves Lansdown PLC | 423,588 | 8,086,805 | ||||||
London Stock Exchange Group PLC | 401,291 | 43,427,350 | ||||||
Schroders PLC | 158,595 | 6,815,658 | ||||||
St. James’s Place PLC | 677,348 | 9,223,789 | ||||||
Standard Life Aberdeen PLC | 2,845,027 | 10,289,463 | ||||||
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95,485,243 | ||||||||
Chemicals — 0.8% | ||||||||
Croda International PLC | 176,006 | 13,995,211 | ||||||
Johnson Matthey PLC | 246,906 | 7,331,009 | ||||||
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21,326,220 | ||||||||
Commercial Services & Supplies — 0.6% | ||||||||
Rentokil Initial PLC(a) | 2,350,301 | 15,604,119 | ||||||
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Diversified Financial Services — 0.3% | ||||||||
M&G PLC | 3,316,902 | 8,302,927 | ||||||
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Diversified Telecommunication Services — 0.7% | ||||||||
BT Group PLC | 11,346,746 | �� | 17,693,408 | |||||
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Electric Utilities — 0.9% | ||||||||
SSE PLC | 1,320,496 | 23,640,855 | ||||||
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Electrical Equipment — 0.5% | ||||||||
Melrose Industries PLC(a) | 6,150,868 | 12,604,978 | ||||||
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Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components — 0.5% | ||||||||
Halma PLC | 480,923 | 14,227,959 | ||||||
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Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 1.2% | ||||||||
British Land Co. PLC (The) | 1,123,129 | 7,072,824 | ||||||
Land Securities Group PLC | 887,584 | 7,792,352 | ||||||
Segro PLC | 1,510,962 | 18,396,944 | ||||||
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33,262,120 | ||||||||
Food & Staples Retailing — 1.9% | ||||||||
J Sainsbury PLC | 2,264,465 | 6,381,917 | ||||||
Tesco PLC | 12,424,958 | 37,654,605 | ||||||
Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC | 3,068,291 | 7,367,231 | ||||||
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51,403,753 | ||||||||
Food Products — 0.5% | ||||||||
Associated British Foods PLC | 450,992 | 12,704,237 | ||||||
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Health Care Equipment & Supplies — 0.8% | ||||||||
Smith & Nephew PLC | 1,111,856 | 21,538,391 | ||||||
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Security | Shares | Value | ||||||
Health Care Providers & Services — 0.0% | ||||||||
NMC Health PLC(a)(b) | 122,262 | $ | 2 | |||||
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Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure — 2.8% | ||||||||
Compass Group PLC | 2,263,168 | 40,003,877 | ||||||
GVC Holdings PLC(a) | 743,454 | 10,277,832 | ||||||
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC(a) | 219,803 | 13,624,783 | ||||||
Whitbread PLC(a) | 255,143 | 10,324,450 | ||||||
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74,230,942 | ||||||||
Household Durables — 1.6% | ||||||||
Barratt Developments PLC(a) | 1,287,186 | 10,654,432 | ||||||
Berkeley Group Holdings PLC | 158,772 | 9,801,421 | ||||||
Persimmon PLC | 404,097 | 14,328,839 | ||||||
Taylor Wimpey PLC(a) | 4,649,193 | 9,555,526 | ||||||
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44,340,218 | ||||||||
Household Products — 2.9% | ||||||||
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | 902,336 | 79,315,016 | ||||||
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Industrial Conglomerates — 0.7% | ||||||||
DCC PLC | 124,366 | 9,434,094 | ||||||
Smiths Group PLC | 500,435 | 9,747,658 | ||||||
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19,181,752 | ||||||||
Insurance — 5.0% | ||||||||
Admiral Group PLC | 241,174 | 9,198,945 | ||||||
Aviva PLC | 4,983,095 | 21,368,400 | ||||||
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC | 1,740,864 | 6,874,804 | ||||||
Legal & General Group PLC | 7,570,028 | 25,538,774 | ||||||
Phoenix Group Holdings PLC | 697,181 | 6,671,767 | ||||||
Prudential PLC | 3,309,848 | 51,677,987 | ||||||
RSA Insurance Group PLC | 1,319,816 | 11,876,011 | ||||||
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133,206,688 | ||||||||
Interactive Media & Services — 0.3% | ||||||||
Auto Trader Group PLC(c) | 1,223,131 | 9,154,263 | ||||||
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Internet & Direct Marketing Retail — 0.7% | ||||||||
Ocado Group PLC(a) | 616,783 | 18,173,226 | ||||||
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Machinery — 0.5% | ||||||||
Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC | 93,377 | 13,881,214 | ||||||
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Media — 1.4% | ||||||||
Informa PLC(a) | 1,902,519 | 13,466,850 | ||||||
Pearson PLC(d) | 959,901 | 8,291,403 | ||||||
WPP PLC | 1,553,141 | 15,045,460 | ||||||
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36,803,713 | ||||||||
Metals & Mining — 9.3% | ||||||||
Anglo American PLC | 1,556,385 | 45,993,226 | ||||||
Antofagasta PLC | 503,093 | 8,419,182 | ||||||
BHP Group PLC | 2,679,574 | 60,765,095 | ||||||
Evraz PLC | 650,526 | 3,354,955 | ||||||
Fresnillo PLC | 233,723 | 3,284,134 | ||||||
Glencore PLC(a) | 12,678,364 | 35,858,242 | ||||||
Rio Tinto PLC | 1,423,514 | 91,868,304 | ||||||
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249,543,138 | ||||||||
Multi-Utilities — 1.9% | ||||||||
National Grid PLC | 4,467,838 | 50,605,228 | ||||||
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Multiline Retail — 0.5% | ||||||||
Next PLC | 168,473 | 14,736,743 | ||||||
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Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 9.3% | ||||||||
BP PLC | 25,708,324 | 84,998,137 |
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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) November 30, 2020 | iShares® MSCI United Kingdom ETF (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets) |
Security | Shares | Value | ||||||
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels (continued) | ||||||||
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A | 5,203,221 | $ | 88,304,628 | |||||
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class B | 4,702,016 | 77,475,958 | ||||||
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250,778,723 | ||||||||
Paper & Forest Products — 0.5% | ||||||||
Mondi PLC | 616,092 | 13,637,269 | ||||||
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Personal Products — 7.6% | ||||||||
Unilever PLC | 3,335,710 | 203,562,051 | ||||||
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Pharmaceuticals — 11.1% | ||||||||
AstraZeneca PLC | 1,664,881 | 173,481,598 | ||||||
GlaxoSmithKline PLC | 6,365,482 | 116,425,784 | ||||||
Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC | 220,502 | 7,677,457 | ||||||
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297,584,839 | ||||||||
Professional Services — 4.2% | ||||||||
Experian PLC | 1,160,108 | 40,981,285 | ||||||
Intertek Group PLC | 204,542 | 15,079,127 | ||||||
RELX PLC | 2,450,782 | 57,176,712 | ||||||
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113,237,124 | ||||||||
Software — 0.5% | ||||||||
AVEVA Group PLC | 79,112 | 3,582,577 | ||||||
Sage Group PLC (The) | 1,379,080 | 11,138,896 | ||||||
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14,721,473 | ||||||||
Specialty Retail — 0.6% | ||||||||
JD Sports Fashion PLC | 558,733 | 5,789,956 | ||||||
Kingfisher PLC(a) | 2,664,349 | 9,732,054 | ||||||
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15,522,010 | ||||||||
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods — 0.4% | ||||||||
Burberry Group PLC | 516,315 | 11,918,101 | ||||||
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Tobacco — 4.6% | ||||||||
British American Tobacco PLC | 2,910,678 | 102,568,295 | ||||||
Imperial Brands PLC | 1,202,330 | 21,846,362 | ||||||
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124,414,657 | ||||||||
Trading Companies & Distributors — 2.6% | ||||||||
Ashtead Group PLC | 570,037 | 24,208,285 | ||||||
Bunzl PLC | 429,679 | 13,532,230 | ||||||
Ferguson PLC | 285,318 | 32,088,162 | ||||||
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69,828,677 | ||||||||
Water Utilities — 0.7% | ||||||||
Severn Trent PLC | 303,581 | 9,682,512 |
Security | Shares | Value | ||||||
Water Utilities (continued) | ||||||||
United Utilities Group PLC | 861,731 | $ | 10,358,682 | |||||
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20,041,194 | ||||||||
Wireless Telecommunication Services — 2.1% | ||||||||
Vodafone Group PLC | 34,031,469 | 56,192,387 | ||||||
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Total Common Stocks — 99.4% |
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Rights | ||||||||
Software — 0.0% | ||||||||
AVEVA Group PLC, (Expires 12/09/20)(a) | 67,414 | 1,008,018 | ||||||
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Total Rights — 0.0% | 1,008,018 | |||||||
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Short-Term Investments | ||||||||
Money Market Funds — 0.0% | ||||||||
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency Shares, 0.19%(e)(f)(g) | 27,994 | 28,011 | ||||||
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares, 0.04%(e)(f) | 910,000 | 910,000 | ||||||
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938,011 | ||||||||
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Total Short-Term Investments — 0.0% |
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Total Investments in Securities — 99.4% |
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Other Assets, Less Liabilities — 0.6% |
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Net Assets — 100.0% | $ | 2,692,496,495 | ||||||
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(a) | Non-income producing security. |
(b) | Security is valued using significant unobservable inputs and is classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. |
(c) | Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration to qualified institutional investors. |
(d) | All or a portion of this security is on loan. |
(e) | Affiliate of the Fund. |
(f) | Annualized 7-day yield as of period-end. |
(g) | All or a portion of this security was purchased with cash collateral received from loaned securities. |
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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) November 30, 2020 | iShares® MSCI United Kingdom ETF |
Affiliates
Investments in issuers considered to be affiliate(s) of the Fund during the period ended November 30, 2020 for purposes of Section 2(a)(3) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, were as follows:
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Affiliated Issuer | Value at 08/31/20 | Purchases at Cost | Proceeds from Sales | Net Realized Gain (Loss) | Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | Value at 11/30/20 | Shares Held at 11/30/20 | Income | Capital Gain Distributions from Underlying Funds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency Shares | $ | 1,317,900 | $ | — | $ | (1,287,604 | )(a) | $ | (2,601 | ) | $ | 316 | $ | 28,011 | 27,994 | $ | 1,677 | (b) | $ | — | ||||||||||||||||
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares | 800,000 | 110,000 | (a) | — | — | — | 910,000 | 910,000 | 218 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(a) | Represents net amount purchased (sold). |
(b) | All or a portion represents securities lending income earned from the reinvestment of cash collateral from loaned securities, net of fees and collateral investment expenses, and other payments to and from borrowers of securities. |
Futures Contracts
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FTSE 100 Index | 156 | 12/18/20 | $ | 13,105 | $ | 568,867 | ||||||||||
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Fair Value Measurements
Various inputs are used in determining the fair value of financial instruments. For description of the input levels and information about the Fund’s policy regarding valuation of financial instruments, refer to a recently published shareholder report. Shareholder reports are available on the Fund’s website at iShares.com and on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website at sec.gov.
The following table summarizes the value of the Fund’s investments according to the fair value hierarchy as of November 30, 2020. The breakdown of the Fund’s investments into major categories is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments above.
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Common Stocks | $ | 2,675,694,100 | $ | — | $ | 2 | $ | 2,675,694,102 | ||||||||
Rights | 1,008,018 | — | — | 1,008,018 | ||||||||||||
Money Market Funds | 938,011 | — | — | 938,011 | ||||||||||||
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$ | 2,677,640,129 | $ | — | $ | 2 | $ | 2,677,640,131 | |||||||||
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Futures Contracts | $ | 568,867 | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 568,867 | ||||||||
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(a) | Shown at the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on the contracts. |
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