iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF (EWJV)
| Assets | $510.00M |
| Expense Ratio | 0.15% |
| PE Ratio | 13.46 |
| Shares Out | 13.40M |
| Dividend (ttm) | $1.19 |
| Dividend Yield | 2.98% |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Jun 16, 2025 |
| Payout Frequency | Semi-Annual |
| Payout Ratio | 40.60% |
| Volume | 138,411 |
| Open | 39.90 |
| Previous Close | 39.34 |
| Day's Range | 39.70 - 39.90 |
| 52-Week Low | 28.84 |
| 52-Week High | 39.90 |
| Beta | 0.49 |
| Holdings | 119 |
| Inception Date | Mar 5, 2019 |
About EWJV
Fund Home PageThe iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF (EWJV) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI Japan Value index. The fund tracks a multi-factor-selected, market cap-weighted portfolio of Japanese equities. EWJV was launched on Mar 5, 2019 and is issued by BlackRock.
Top 10 Holdings
40.06% of assets| Name | Symbol | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Toyota Motor Corporation | 7203 | 8.72% |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 8306 | 7.70% |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 8316 | 4.39% |
| Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 8411 | 3.68% |
| Mitsubishi Corporation | 8058 | 3.59% |
| SoftBank Group Corp. | 9984 | 3.21% |
| Mitsui & Co., Ltd. | 8031 | 2.76% |
| KDDI Corporation | 9433 | 2.28% |
| Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | 7267 | 1.87% |
| SoftBank Corp. | 9434 | 1.86% |
Dividends
| Ex-Dividend | Amount | Pay Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2025 | $0.37775 | Jun 20, 2025 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | $0.80903 | Dec 20, 2024 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | $0.47278 | Jun 17, 2024 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | $0.57493 | Dec 27, 2023 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | $0.39267 | Jun 13, 2023 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | $0.26317 | Dec 19, 2022 |
Performance
EWJV had a total return of 32.64% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 10.73%.
News
EWJV: Less Indexed To Benefits Of Yen Decline
Despite a narrower mandate, EWJV's expense ratio is 0.15% against the 0.5% for broader EWJ. However, EWJV is more indexed to financials and less indexed to IT which is an export-led market as well, pa...
EWJV: Danger On FX And Tariff Front (Rating Downgrade)
iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF's sector selection, with heavy financials and export-oriented industries, increases vulnerability to yen weakness and U.S. tariffs. Upcoming Japanese elections and potenti...
EWJV: A Near 4% Value Dividend Fund For A Rising Japanese Yen
Bessent's meeting with Japanese officials signals potential strategic moves related to US-JPY Forex matters. The Yen's year-to-date strengthening enhances currency return benefits, making Yen-denomina...
EWJV: Not Much Value In This Japanese Value ETF
US markets are at all-time highs, prompting me to seek undervalued opportunities, leading me to take a mental trip to Japan. My previous Japanese investments have yielded great returns as the Nikkei r...
Japan In The Spotlight; Blockchain In AI's Shadow
As the global private equity industry took tentative steps toward recovery in 2024, Japan raced ahead. The value of private equity investment in Japan jumped nearly 41% over the prior-year total in 20...
EWJV: Does Value Investing In Japan Deliver Alpha?
Japan's equities gained traction due to Warren Buffett's interest and regulatory actions aimed at improving investor sentiment, with notable companies like Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group seeing price ...
Japan: Hotter Than Expected Inflation, Output Rebound Should Support The BoJ's Policy Normalization
Today's data were a mixed bag, but the Bank of Japan will pay more attention to the sharp rise in Tokyo's inflation. Tokyo consumer prices rose more than expected to 2.6% YoY (vs 2.2% in July, 2.3% ma...
Third Quarter Economy Signals Sought From Flash PMI Data After Japan GDP Shows Rebound
Japan's economy enjoyed a strong second quarter, according to official data, which corroborates recent robust survey data. Gross domestic product rose 0.8% in the three months to June, according to in...
BoJ Hikes By 25 Bps And Starts QT: Too Little Too Late, But In Right Direction To Prop Up The Plunging Yen
The “real” policy rate is massively negative, with the new policy rate of 0.25% far below Core CPI of 2.6%. When QT reaches about ¥3 trillion per month in 2026, it would represent a reduction of its J...
EWJV ETF: Better To Wait For A Pullback
EWJV provides low-cost access to 134 large and mid-cap Japanese stocks with value characteristics. Despite outperforming developed markets by over 2x during the past year, EWJV's valuations still look...
Escape Velocity: Japan's Drift Toward Sustained Inflation
Japan has been struggling for some time to generate enough velocity in inflation to escape the gravitational pull of deflation. The story for the rest of 2024 and into 2025 is now centered on whether ...
What's The Next Step For The Bank of Japan?
In March, the Bank of Japan abolished its 8-year-old negative interest rate policy, hiking rates for the first time in 17 years by raising its benchmark rate to 0-0.1%. To combat inflation while also ...
Mixed Japanese Data Supports BoJ's Policy Normalization
We'd rather downplay the weaker-than-expected manufacturing data and focus on a solid recovery in retail sales and a reacceleration in inflation, which will be welcomed by the Bank of Japan. Inflation...
EWJV: A Value Tilted Japan Fund That Works
The long-term case for investing in Japan's stock market may still be strong, despite short-term concerns about the Yen's volatility. The iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF is a value-driven option for inve...
Cooler Inflation Ahead Of The Bank of Japan Meeting
Inflation slowed down in March but underlying inflationary pressures are still alive. The BoJ's pause at its next week's meeting is widely expected but markets will pay more attention to the BoJ's qua...
Can Japan's Stock Market Continue Its Record-Setting Run?
Japan's equity benchmark, the Nikkei 225 Index, has been on a tear in 2024, eclipsing its previous high set back in 1989. As of early April, the index is hovering near 40,000. Solid economic growth, a...
The Bank of Japan's New Path Ahead
The Bank of Japan is set to normalise monetary policy when certain conditions are met, namely inflation, positive real cash earnings, and a recovery in domestic demand growth. We expect the window for...
The End Of Japan's Negative Interest Rates: What It Means For Gold
The Bank of Japan's historic move to end the country's negative interest rate policy after nearly two decades triggered a jolt upward to new all-time highs for gold against the yen. The BoJ announced ...
End Of An Era - Bank of Japan Reverses Negative Interest Rate Policy
Kazuo Ueda becomes Governor of the Bank of Japan, continuing the loose monetary policies implemented by his predecessor. The BOJ raises short rates from -0.1% to 0.1%, becoming the last central bank t...
Flash Insights: Bank of Japan - A 'Watchful' Adjustment
The Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007 and has eliminated the yield curve control framework. According to the central bank, the virtuous cycle between wages and prices w...
Flash PMI Signal Cooling Inflation And Stagnating Private Sector Activity In Japan
Japan's private sector activity broadly stagnated in February according to flash PMI data, attributed to a combination of slowing services activity growth and an acceleration in manufacturing output c...
EWJV: Weak Yen Favours Market
The iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF is similar to the iShares MSCI Japan ETF but with IT exposure mostly eliminated and redistributed into other sectors. EWJV may have more potential due to corporate gov...
Bank of Japan Opens The Door To Ending Negative Rates, But Timing Uncertainty Remains
The Bank of Japan stood pat on monetary policy today as widely expected. But the market is now paying attention to a more positive tone on the wage and inflation outlook, as well as an upgrade to the ...
EWJV: A Unique Play On Japanese Corporate Reforms
Backed by earnings growth and widespread corporate governance reforms, Japanese stocks have risen strongly this year. Stocks priced at book value discounts have been the pick of the lot, supporting va...
Japan Flash PMI Eases To 50.0 To Signal Stalling Private Sector Activity In November
Japan's private sector growth ground to a halt in November according to the latest flash PMI data, which is based on about 85%-90% of total PMI survey responses each month. This was mainly attributed ...
Declining PPIs Perpetuate Japan's TINA Trade
Things were looking tough for the BoJ as recently as this summer, when the country's core CPI bolted north of 4%, far beyond the 2% inflation target that major central banks view as ideal. The Bank of...
Japan's Flash PMI Points To Stalling Private Sector Economy At Start Of Fourth Quarter
October's flash PMI data revealed that Japan's private sector economy concluded the eight-month growth streak that commenced in January 2023. This was attributed primarily to a sharper fall in manufac...
Asia Continues To Fuel Global Growth, But Economic Momentum Is Slowing
The region is likely to see faster disinflation, but prospects for growth in coming years are dimming. Strong consumer spending has supported growth in Asia's three largest economies this year, but th...
China Could Derail Japan's Fragile Recovery
The IMF, the World Bank, and the United Nations all rank China and Japan as the second and third largest economies on the planet. More of what is occurring in the markets should reflect what is happen...
Mixed Signals For Earnings And Spending In Japan, But The BoJ Is Likely To Move On
It is disappointing that labour cash earnings were weaker than expected in Japan, but consumption held up relatively well. Meanwhile, due to the recent spike in market rates and high inflation, the Ba...
Japan's Growth Momentum And Inflation Pressures Ease In September
Japan's private sector economy continued to grow in September, extending the sequence of expansion that commenced at the start of 2023. Slower service sector growth, attributed in part to a renewed de...
EWJV: Attractive ETF Thanks To Improving Japanese Economy
iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF is expected to benefit from Japan's improving economy and the flow of investment capital from China to Japan. EWJV has had an impressive performance in 2023, delivering a ...
EWJV ETF: In Vogue, But Overbought At This Point
EWJV, which focuses on Japanese value stocks, is receiving plenty of attention because of the huge net cash position and relatively low valuations of Japanese stocks. Despite a sturdy performance this...
Analyzing 13Fs: Michael Burry's Scion Asset Management Q2 Update
Michael Burry closed out most of his Q1 positions in the second quarter, reducing positions in Signet Jewelers, Liberty Latin America, and New York Community Bancorp. Burry more than doubled his posit...
The Sun Shines On Japanese Stocks, Anticipating Key Events To Finish The First Half
Japan's Nikkei 225 eclipsed 33,000 for the first time in 33 years, and the significant rally has attracted major investor interest. Global portfolio managers are increasingly bullish on Japan, and the...
Japan June Flash PMI Data Signal Solid Expansion At End Of Q2 2023 Despite Moderation In Growth Momentum
Despite a slowdown in growth momentum from May, as signalled by the latest June flash PMI data for Japan, a solid quarter of growth is expected for Q2 2023. This may well exceed the strong official GD...
