Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – 98.2% | ||||
Aerospace – 2.7% | ||||
Leidos Holdings, Inc. | 11,701 | $1,231,998 | ||
Lockheed Martin Corp. | 12,961 | 5,034,571 | ||
$6,266,569 | ||||
Airlines – 0.3% | ||||
Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad | 601,700 | $692,007 | ||
Automotive – 0.8% | ||||
USS Co. Ltd. | 111,500 | $1,941,648 | ||
Business Services – 3.3% | ||||
CGI, Inc. (a) | 22,114 | $1,409,989 | ||
Fiserv, Inc. (a) | 25,079 | 2,677,685 | ||
Infosys Technologies Ltd., ADR | 378,820 | 3,447,262 | ||
$7,534,936 | ||||
Cable TV – 0.4% | ||||
Comcast Corp., “A” | 22,005 | $871,398 | ||
Computer Software – 2.9% | ||||
Adobe Systems, Inc. (a) | 17,485 | $6,759,701 | ||
Computer Software - Systems – 2.4% | ||||
Fujitsu Ltd. | 12,600 | $1,296,861 | ||
Hitachi Ltd. | 33,600 | 1,076,434 | ||
NICE Systems Ltd., ADR (a) | 16,435 | 3,059,211 | ||
$5,432,506 | ||||
Construction – 1.7% | ||||
AvalonBay Communities, Inc., REIT | 16,111 | $2,513,477 | ||
Rinnai Corp. | 17,100 | 1,438,147 | ||
$3,951,624 | ||||
Consumer Products – 2.9% | ||||
Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 17,576 | $2,485,949 | ||
L'Oréal | 4,120 | 1,202,997 | ||
Procter & Gamble Co. | 26,212 | 3,038,495 | ||
$6,727,441 | ||||
Electronics – 4.9% | ||||
Kyocera Corp. | 55,300 | $2,989,979 | ||
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR | 163,141 | 8,210,887 | ||
$11,200,866 | ||||
Energy - Integrated – 0.2% | ||||
Eni S.p.A. | 61,327 | $556,296 | ||
Food & Beverages – 7.9% | ||||
General Mills, Inc. | 61,573 | $3,881,562 | ||
Mondelez International, Inc. | 39,824 | 2,075,627 | ||
Mowi A.S.A. | 77,441 | 1,458,280 | ||
Nestle S.A. | 40,345 | 4,368,127 | ||
PepsiCo, Inc. | 37,034 | 4,871,823 | ||
Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd. | 28,000 | 1,461,727 | ||
$18,117,146 |
Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – continued | ||||
Food & Drug Stores – 4.5% | ||||
Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd. | 158,700 | $669,714 | ||
Lawson, Inc. | 18,600 | 1,027,920 | ||
Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd. | 88,900 | 3,039,309 | ||
Tesco PLC | 307,752 | 870,891 | ||
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 12,407 | 1,539,212 | ||
Wesfarmers Ltd. | 119,207 | 3,207,695 | ||
$10,354,741 | ||||
General Merchandise – 0.4% | ||||
Dollar General Corp. | 4,301 | $823,685 | ||
Health Maintenance Organizations – 0.8% | ||||
Cigna Corp. | 9,129 | $1,801,334 | ||
Insurance – 4.9% | ||||
Everest Re Group Ltd. | 17,836 | $3,538,841 | ||
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. | 29,087 | 1,113,741 | ||
MetLife, Inc. | 105,128 | 3,785,659 | ||
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. | 7,595 | 1,119,212 | ||
Zurich Insurance Group AG | 5,130 | 1,659,769 | ||
$11,217,222 | ||||
Internet – 1.5% | ||||
Alphabet, Inc., “A” (a) | 1,597 | $2,289,331 | ||
LogMeIn, Inc. | 13,995 | 1,188,176 | ||
$3,477,507 | ||||
Leisure & Toys – 0.5% | ||||
Activision Blizzard, Inc. | 15,950 | $1,148,081 | ||
Machinery & Tools – 1.2% | ||||
AGCO Corp. | 33,485 | $1,849,377 | ||
Sandvik AB (a) | 61,440 | 1,016,550 | ||
$2,865,927 | ||||
Major Banks – 2.2% | ||||
Bank of Nova Scotia | 20,184 | $807,764 | ||
BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. | 399,000 | 1,111,836 | ||
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | 12,806 | 1,460,396 | ||
Royal Bank of Canada (l) | 27,620 | 1,791,157 | ||
$5,171,153 | ||||
Medical & Health Technology & Services – 0.5% | ||||
McKesson Corp. | 6,660 | $1,056,742 | ||
Medical Equipment – 4.1% | ||||
EssilorLuxottica (a) | 16,122 | $2,081,863 | ||
Medtronic PLC | 16,755 | 1,651,708 | ||
Terumo Corp. | 145,700 | 5,714,785 | ||
$9,448,356 | ||||
Natural Gas - Pipeline – 0.9% | ||||
Enbridge, Inc. | 62,852 | $2,039,547 | ||
Network & Telecom – 0.9% | ||||
VTech Holdings Ltd. | 358,500 | $2,162,146 |
Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – continued | ||||
Other Banks & Diversified Financials – 1.8% | ||||
DBS Group Holdings Ltd. | 101,500 | $1,398,786 | ||
Komercni Banka A.S. (a) | 40,182 | 860,254 | ||
U.S. Bancorp | 56,619 | 2,013,372 | ||
$4,272,412 | ||||
Pharmaceuticals – 12.4% | ||||
Eli Lilly & Co. | 19,237 | $2,942,299 | ||
Johnson & Johnson | 46,427 | 6,906,016 | ||
Merck & Co., Inc. | 43,820 | 3,537,150 | ||
Novartis AG | 14,181 | 1,229,345 | ||
Novo Nordisk A.S., “B” | 60,163 | 3,922,441 | ||
Pfizer, Inc. | 55,202 | 2,108,164 | ||
Roche Holding AG | 22,905 | 7,950,873 | ||
$28,596,288 | ||||
Pollution Control – 1.9% | ||||
Waste Connections, Inc. | 46,773 | $4,398,533 | ||
Precious Metals & Minerals – 1.7% | ||||
Franco-Nevada Corp. | 27,215 | $3,820,003 | ||
Railroad & Shipping – 0.8% | ||||
Canadian National Railway Co. | 21,741 | $1,870,596 | ||
Real Estate – 5.6% | ||||
Grand City Properties S.A. | 164,585 | $3,723,378 | ||
Life Storage, Inc., REIT | 17,258 | 1,682,310 | ||
Public Storage, Inc., REIT | 7,189 | 1,457,498 | ||
STORE Capital Corp., REIT | 154,885 | 2,995,476 | ||
Sun Communities, Inc., REIT | 21,603 | 2,963,716 | ||
$12,822,378 | ||||
Restaurants – 3.1% | ||||
McDonald's Corp. | 13,154 | $2,450,853 | ||
Starbucks Corp. | 59,564 | 4,645,396 | ||
$7,096,249 | ||||
Specialty Chemicals – 1.3% | ||||
Symrise AG | 27,384 | $2,991,126 | ||
Specialty Stores – 2.1% | ||||
ABC-MART, Inc. | 78,500 | $4,767,722 | ||
Telecommunications - Wireless – 3.9% | ||||
Advanced Info Service Public Co. Ltd. | 211,200 | $1,254,851 | ||
KDDI Corp. | 222,800 | 6,478,750 | ||
Vodafone Group PLC | 799,398 | 1,319,513 | ||
$9,053,114 | ||||
Telephone Services – 3.9% | ||||
HKT Trust and HKT Ltd. | 2,136,000 | $3,036,667 | ||
TELUS Corp. | 213,002 | 3,697,715 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. | 38,409 | 2,203,908 | ||
$8,938,290 | ||||
Tobacco – 0.5% | ||||
Japan Tobacco, Inc. | 63,300 | $1,254,613 |
Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – continued | ||||
Utilities - Electric Power – 6.4% | ||||
American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 29,203 | $2,489,556 | ||
Avangrid, Inc. | 32,927 | 1,464,593 | ||
CEZ A.S. (Czech Republic) | 35,999 | 707,880 | ||
CLP Holdings Ltd. | 348,000 | 3,409,740 | ||
Duke Energy Corp. | 11,090 | 949,637 | ||
Evergy, Inc. | 40,652 | 2,507,822 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. | 49,038 | 3,188,941 | ||
$14,718,169 | ||||
Total Common Stocks | $226,218,072 | |||
Investment Companies (h) – 1.0% | ||||
Money Market Funds – 1.0% | ||||
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v) | 2,342,092 | $2,342,326 | ||
Other Assets, Less Liabilities – 0.8% | 1,814,457 | |||
Net Assets – 100.0% | $230,374,855 |
(a) | Non-income producing security. | |||
(h) | An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund's investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $2,342,326 and $226,218,072, respectively. | |||
(l) | A portion of this security is on loan. See Note 2 for additional information. | |||
(v) | Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. |
The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined: | |
ADR | American Depositary Receipt |
REIT | Real Estate Investment Trust |
Financial Instruments | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total |
Equity Securities: | ||||
United States | $105,195,276 | $— | $— | $105,195,276 |
Japan | 32,487,895 | — | — | 32,487,895 |
Canada | 19,835,304 | — | — | 19,835,304 |
Switzerland | — | 15,208,114 | — | 15,208,114 |
Hong Kong | 10,390,103 | — | — | 10,390,103 |
Taiwan | 8,210,887 | — | — | 8,210,887 |
Germany | 6,714,504 | — | — | 6,714,504 |
Denmark | — | 3,922,441 | — | 3,922,441 |
India | 3,447,262 | — | — | 3,447,262 |
Other Countries | 14,066,846 | 6,739,440 | — | 20,806,286 |
Mutual Funds | 2,342,326 | — | — | 2,342,326 |
Total | $202,690,403 | $25,869,995 | $— | $228,560,398 |
Affiliated Issuers | Beginning Value | Purchases | Sales Proceeds | Realized Gain (Loss) | Change in Unrealized Appreciation or Depreciation | Ending Value |
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | $588,609 | $49,826,685 | $48,072,559 | $(364) | $(45) | $2,342,326 |
Affiliated Issuers | Dividend Income | Capital Gain Distributions |
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | $16,543 | $— |
United States | 47.5% |
Japan | 14.1% |
Canada | 8.6% |
Switzerland | 6.6% |
Hong Kong | 4.5% |
Taiwan | 3.6% |
Germany | 2.9% |
Denmark | 1.7% |
India | 1.5% |
Other Countries | 9.0% |