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ETF analysis

Principal International Equity ETF (PIEQ) holdings & weights

Per-holding contribution · concentration · sector skew — a deep read

US-listedAs of 2026-10-06
Annual fee0.48%
Net assets$1.3B
InceptionNov 5, 2024

Fund overview

This is a US-listed ETF from Principal. Key facts — expense ratio 0.48%; net assets about $1.3B; inception Nov 5, 2024. Its 1-year return is +13.13%.

Provider
Principal
Expense ratio
0.48%
Net assets (AUM)
$1.3B
Inception
Nov 5, 2024
1-year return
+13.13%
Holdings
39
52-week range
$31.22–$37.58
Fund details

Fund overview

This is a US-listed ETF from Principal. Key facts — expense ratio 0.48%; net assets about $1.3B; inception Nov 5, 2024. Its 1-year return is +13.13%.

Provider
Principal
Expense ratio
0.48%
Net assets (AUM)
$1.3B
Inception
Nov 5, 2024
1-year return
+13.13%
Holdings
39
52-week range
$31.22–$37.58

5 identified stocks · net exposure / NAV 20.02%. Display weights are normalized to 100%; calculations retain original exposures without an additional leverage multiplier. Cash and unallocated contracts are excluded from stock attribution.

Weight and calculation basis

5 identified stocks · net exposure / NAV 20.02%. Display weights are normalized to 100%; calculations retain original exposures without an additional leverage multiplier. Cash and unallocated contracts are excluded from stock attribution.

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Holdings not priced
100.0%
Top-10 weight
2442
Concentration HHI (Moderate)
Information Technology
Top sector

We have this ETF's holdings, but the prices for those particular listings are outside our quote coverage (currently Korea- and US-listed securities). So today's contribution and return are not computed — showing 0% would claim it did not move, which is a different statement. The holdings and weights below follow the calculation basis above.

Today's summary

Its top 10 holdings make up about 100.0% of the fund. The concentration index (HHI) is 2442 — Moderate, and the largest sector is Information Technology (36%). The higher the concentration, the more one stock or sector drives the whole ETF's return.

Structural health

A five-axis read on how this fund is built. It is not a return forecast or a recommendation, and a low score does not mean a bad fund — leveraged products score low by design. Each axis shows the figure behind it.

63/ 100
BSound structure
DiversificationHHI 2,44219

Concentration sits in the 1,500–2,500 band (2,442) — moderate.

Sector balanceInformation Technology 36%81

The largest sector is Information Technology at 36% — industries are reasonably spread.

Cost0.48%/yr63

0.48% a year is typical. Held ten years, roughly 4.8% goes to fees.

Fund size$1.3B55

Net assets of $1.3B — liquid enough to trade, and unlikely to be wound down.

Structural simplicityPhysical, 1x100

A plain 1x physical fund holding the shares themselves — no structural drift from how long you hold it.

Concentration and diversification

Structural health

A five-axis read on how this fund is built. It is not a return forecast or a recommendation, and a low score does not mean a bad fund — leveraged products score low by design. Each axis shows the figure behind it.

63/ 100
BSound structure
DiversificationHHI 2,44219

Concentration sits in the 1,500–2,500 band (2,442) — moderate.

Sector balanceInformation Technology 36%81

The largest sector is Information Technology at 36% — industries are reasonably spread.

Cost0.48%/yr63

0.48% a year is typical. Held ten years, roughly 4.8% goes to fees.

Fund size$1.3B55

Net assets of $1.3B — liquid enough to trade, and unlikely to be wound down.

Structural simplicityPhysical, 1x100

A plain 1x physical fund holding the shares themselves — no structural drift from how long you hold it.

Top 5 holdings

Weights are normalized to 100% of absolute exposures across analysed positions, including positions outside this top list. Cash, collateral and unverified assets are excluded. Contributions retain original signed NAV exposures; leverage is not applied twice.

Normalized to 100% of analysed positions

Weights are normalized to 100% of absolute exposures across analysed positions, including positions outside this top list. Cash, collateral and unverified assets are excluded. Contributions retain original signed NAV exposures; leverage is not applied twice.

Tile size = weight, colour = the day's return (deeper = larger). Covers the top 5 holdings, 20.0% of the fund. Labels are dropped where a tile is too small; hover any tile for its name and figures.
#HoldingWeight
1Taiwan Semiconductor ManufacturingTSM36.11%
2Teck ResourcesTECK23.53%
3Spotify TechnologySPOT18.58%
4Yum ChinaYUMC11.89%
5ICON PublicICLR9.89%

Holdings below 0.5% or outside the top list are folded into “Others” and omitted above.

Where the weight sits — sector mix

Listed equity weights summed by sector and normalized to 100%. Each band is one sector's share.

Information Technology36.1%
Industrials23.5%
Communication Services18.6%
Consumer Discretionary11.9%
Health Care9.9%
Industry breakdown
Semiconductors36.1%
Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)23.5%
Broadcasting18.6%
Restaurants11.9%
Biotechnology: Commercial Physical & Biological Resarch9.9%
Concentration at a glanceHHI 2,442concentrated
spread1,0001,8002,500concentrated

HHI sums the squared weights. The more it leans on a few names, the higher it goes — and the more the whole ETF moves with them.

How concentrated is it

Principal International Equity ETF leans heavily on a handful of names. Its concentration index (HHI) is 2442, and the top 10 holdings make up 100.0% of equity weight — closer to owning a few stocks than a diversified basket.

If you bought it for diversification, note that when one or two of those names move sharply, most of the fund's day comes from them.

HHI squares each weight and sums them: 10,000 means one stock is everything, and the more evenly spread the holdings, the closer it falls to zero.

Where the sector weight sits

Sector weights run Information Technology(36%) · Industrials(24%) · Communication Services(19%). At 36%, the leading sector is a clear tilt.

Expect it to ride that industry's cycle — ahead of the index in good stretches, behind in bad ones.

Weights above sum the individually listed equities and normalize that equity total to 100%.

How much it overlaps others

Even its closest peer, ASIA, overlaps only 16% (2 shared names).

Funds filed under the same label can hold quite different companies, so pairing this one with another may genuinely spread risk.

What it is made of

The fund holds 39 positions in total; this page lists the largest 5 and folds the rest into "Others".

Equities are 20.0% of the fund, the rest swaps and cash — index exposure built synthetically rather than by owning the shares, which adds counterparty risk.

The expense ratio is 0.48% a year. Funds tracking the same index tend to perform alike, which makes the fee one of the few things that reliably separates them over time.

This page is not investment advice. Investment decisions and responsibility are your own.

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