Screen an ETF

Fund names and sustainability labels say little about which companies a fund actually holds. This tool reads an ETF’s holdings list and shows what share goes to five frequently asked-about areas, with the individual holdings listed below.

How the Tool Classifies Holdings

Each position is either assigned to an area by a fixed rule or not. The rules are simple and can be checked:

An area’s share is the sum of the weights of all positions assigned to it. Below 3% it shows green, below 12% yellow, and red above that. The color thresholds are our own reading aid, not a judgment.

Examples From the Holdings Lists

Holdings lists dated September 14 to 16, 2026:

In the MSCI World, the 0.4% China comes entirely from Hong Kong, for example AIA and the Hong Kong stock exchange operator. By these rules, the SRI fund fully excludes the three screened industries, yet almost two thirds of it is still in US stocks.

Limits of the Classification

• A sector is not a business line. “Energy” covers coal companies and oilfield service firms as well as oil and gas producers. Utilities running gas power plants sit in the utilities sector and are not counted.
• Name lists are incomplete. Defense and tobacco shares rely on well-known groups. Smaller manufacturers, suppliers and conglomerates with a defense unit are not detected. Boeing counts fully as defense, although much of its revenue comes from civil aircraft.
• Country as listed. A Chinese company listed in the United States may appear under either country, depending on the holdings list.
• Not an ESG rating. The tool measures shares; it does not rate them. What a fund excludes is set by its index. The article on factor ETFs explains how funds with factors and filters are built.

The ETF portfolio analysis shows the combined makeup of a portfolio of several funds.

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