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THE JAPANESE SMALL COMPANY SERIES

Actively managedEquityOpen-end fund
DFA INVESTMENT TRUST COHoldings as of Apr 30, 2026Filed Jun 24, 2026

Actively managed developed international stock fund

As of its 2026 Q2 report, THE JAPANESE SMALL COMPANY SERIES held 1,584 positions with $3.74B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 6.4% of the fund. Over the 12 months to May 2026, it returned 33.5%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q3 it added 51 new positions and exited 37.

2026 Q2 holdings and allocationChanges are against the previous quarter, 2026 Q2
Expense ratio
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Yearly cost, as a share of what you have invested
$3.74B
The whole fund, all share classes
1,584 holdings
6.4%in the top 10
Weight held in the ten largest holdings
Top 25 hold 12.5%
Return, 1 year
+33.5%
With dividends, to May 2026
3 yr total +80.9% · 5 yr total +63.5%
What this fund is

THE JAPANESE SMALL COMPANY SERIES is actively managed developed international equity fund.

What you own

per cent of the fund
CompanyWeightValue
The DFA Investment Trust Company
1.11%
$41.63M
Dimensional Holdings Inc.
1.10%
$41.02M
Meiko Electronics Co Ltd
0.67%
$24.87M
Taiyo Yuden Co Ltd
0.59%
$22.25M
SUMCO Corp
0.51%
$19.23M
Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd
0.51%
$18.93M
Mitsubishi Materials Corp
0.51%
$18.93M
Nikkon Holdings Co Ltd
0.49%
$18.19M
GS Yuasa Corp
0.48%
$17.98M
JGC Holdings Corp
0.45%
$16.95M
Showing 1–10 of 1,584 · the top 10 are 6.41% of the fund, the top 25 are 12.54%

Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.

The 200 largest of 1,584 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.

What the fund is made of

Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.

100.77%
of net assets
Stocks99.67%
Cash & short-term1.10%

How it has done

Total return, dividends reinvested · to May 2026

C000002755 share class · total returns with dividends reinvested

1 year
+33.50%
3 years
+80.89%
Cumulative, not per year
5 years
+63.45%
Cumulative, not per year
Largest decline in 3 years
-9.41%
From a previous high to a later low
Cumulative return, last three years· Aug 2023 – May 2026

Volatility over the last 12 months: 17.81%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.

Jun 2026 and Jul 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.

Fees & fund details

THE JAPANESE SMALL COMPANY SERIES is an actively managed developed international equity fund.

Asset class
Equity
Region
Developed international
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Features
Master-feeder

This fund files no prospectus profile. Unit investment trusts and closed-end funds register on forms that carry no objective or fee tagging, and some fund families file without it — a gap in what was filed, not a fund without an objective or without fees.

Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.

What changed this quarter

2026 Q3 vs 2026 Q2

Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.

51 new· the largest 8

Keisei Electric Railway Co Ltd
Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc
NH Foods Ltd
Sugi Holdings Co Ltd
Kobe Bussan Co Ltd
CyberAgent Inc
Toyo Tire Corp
Modec Inc

37 exited· the largest 8

PALTAC Corp
Toho Titanium Co Ltd
Mandom Corp
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co Inc
Tokyo Keiki Inc
Solasto Corp
Nippon Dry-Chemical Co Ltd
Maezawa Kasei Industries Co Ltd
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