Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – 98.0% | ||||
Aerospace & Defense – 1.2% | ||||
Dassault Aviation S.A. | 5,658 | $957,893 | ||
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. | 598,400 | 1,795,134 | ||
$2,753,027 | ||||
Automotive – 0.4% | ||||
Bridgestone Corp. | 24,600 | $968,261 | ||
Brokerage & Asset Managers – 0.8% | ||||
ASX Ltd. | 18,888 | $1,095,242 | ||
IG Group Holdings PLC | 80,292 | 723,913 | ||
$1,819,155 | ||||
Business Services – 2.6% | ||||
Amdocs Ltd. | 12,905 | $1,121,316 | ||
Dropbox, Inc. (a) | 131,075 | 2,731,603 | ||
NS Solutions Corp. | 37,100 | 1,086,472 | ||
Sohgo Security Services Co. Ltd. | 37,700 | 1,041,067 | ||
$5,980,458 | ||||
Cable TV – 0.7% | ||||
Charter Communications, Inc., “A” (a) | 1,603 | $812,609 | ||
Comcast Corp., “A” | 18,346 | 812,361 | ||
$1,624,970 | ||||
Computer Software – 5.1% | ||||
ACI Worldwide, Inc. (a) | 36,746 | $978,914 | ||
Adobe Systems, Inc. (a) | 6,165 | 2,567,599 | ||
Microsoft Corp. | 20,191 | 5,489,327 | ||
NICE Systems Ltd., ADR (a) | 9,118 | 1,811,929 | ||
Oracle Corp. | 12,013 | 863,975 | ||
$11,711,744 | ||||
Computer Software - Systems – 4.8% | ||||
Constellation Software, Inc. | 2,660 | $4,186,558 | ||
Fujitsu Ltd. | 14,800 | 2,216,271 | ||
Hitachi Ltd. | 28,100 | 1,467,919 | ||
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. | 15,524 | 993,381 | ||
Venture Corp. Ltd. | 93,500 | 1,220,624 | ||
Verint Systems, Inc. (a) | 19,165 | 978,182 | ||
$11,062,935 | ||||
Construction – 1.1% | ||||
AvalonBay Communities, Inc., REIT | 7,887 | $1,640,180 | ||
Otis Worldwide Corp. | 12,792 | 951,725 | ||
$2,591,905 | ||||
Consumer Products – 2.3% | ||||
Colgate-Palmolive Co. | 24,912 | $1,963,315 | ||
Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 14,649 | 1,948,610 | ||
Procter & Gamble Co. | 9,431 | 1,394,656 | ||
$5,306,581 | ||||
Electronics – 3.6% | ||||
Kyocera Corp. | 46,300 | $2,604,685 | ||
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR | 59,009 | 5,623,557 | ||
$8,228,242 |
Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – continued | ||||
Food & Beverages – 5.7% | ||||
General Mills, Inc. | 52,986 | $3,701,072 | ||
J.M. Smucker Co. | 8,181 | 1,025,652 | ||
Mondelez International, Inc. | 27,851 | 1,770,210 | ||
Nestle S.A. | 29,036 | 3,541,714 | ||
PepsiCo, Inc. | 18,351 | 3,078,380 | ||
$13,117,028 | ||||
Food & Drug Stores – 2.6% | ||||
Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd. | 54,200 | $2,277,718 | ||
Sundrug Co. Ltd. | 38,200 | 828,480 | ||
Tesco PLC | 305,825 | 998,108 | ||
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 13,344 | 1,716,439 | ||
$5,820,745 | ||||
General Merchandise – 2.6% | ||||
B&M European Value Retail S.A. | 308,388 | $1,514,373 | ||
Dollar General Corp. | 14,686 | 3,235,913 | ||
Dollarama, Inc. | 20,348 | 1,180,163 | ||
$5,930,449 | ||||
Insurance – 4.1% | ||||
Everest Re Group Ltd. | 14,871 | $4,201,058 | ||
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. | 3,770 | 2,092,285 | ||
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. | 9,607 | 1,545,258 | ||
Zurich Insurance Group AG | 3,331 | 1,521,036 | ||
$9,359,637 | ||||
Internet – 3.2% | ||||
Alphabet, Inc., “A” (a) | 1,802 | $4,099,983 | ||
Alphabet, Inc., “C” (a) | 376 | 857,573 | ||
Gartner, Inc. (a) | 8,887 | 2,331,949 | ||
$7,289,505 | ||||
Leisure & Toys – 3.9% | ||||
Electronic Arts, Inc. | 30,794 | $4,269,588 | ||
Nintendo Co. Ltd. | 2,700 | 1,201,758 | ||
Sankyo Co. Ltd. | 62,600 | 2,087,576 | ||
SEGA SAMMY Holdings, Inc. | 76,500 | 1,426,800 | ||
$8,985,722 | ||||
Machinery & Tools – 0.9% | ||||
Eaton Corp. PLC | 14,763 | $2,046,152 | ||
Major Banks – 5.7% | ||||
Bank of Nova Scotia | 16,825 | $1,139,221 | ||
BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. | 651,500 | 2,493,611 | ||
DBS Group Holdings Ltd. | 246,800 | 5,560,811 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 19,520 | 2,581,130 | ||
Royal Bank of Canada | 12,218 | 1,276,537 | ||
$13,051,310 | ||||
Medical & Health Technology & Services – 2.8% | ||||
McKesson Corp. | 19,518 | $6,415,371 |
Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – continued | ||||
Medical Equipment – 1.5% | ||||
Becton, Dickinson and Co. | 4,895 | $1,252,141 | ||
Medtronic PLC | 13,969 | 1,398,996 | ||
Terumo Corp. | 26,300 | 848,925 | ||
$3,500,062 | ||||
Metals & Mining – 0.7% | ||||
Rio Tinto PLC | 21,083 | $1,527,584 | ||
Natural Gas - Distribution – 1.4% | ||||
Italgas S.p.A. | 490,416 | $3,164,181 | ||
Other Banks & Diversified Financials – 1.8% | ||||
Fiserv, Inc. (a) | 8,717 | $873,269 | ||
U.S. Bancorp | 59,506 | 3,157,983 | ||
$4,031,252 | ||||
Pharmaceuticals – 12.1% | ||||
Bayer AG | 15,821 | $1,130,837 | ||
Eli Lilly & Co. | 9,261 | 2,902,768 | ||
Johnson & Johnson | 37,411 | 6,716,397 | ||
Merck & Co., Inc. | 36,528 | 3,361,672 | ||
Novo Nordisk A.S., “B” | 51,994 | 5,759,980 | ||
Roche Holding AG | 16,752 | 5,700,430 | ||
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | 7,385 | 1,983,980 | ||
$27,556,064 | ||||
Pollution Control – 1.1% | ||||
Republic Services, Inc. | 18,442 | $2,468,277 | ||
Precious Metals & Minerals – 1.8% | ||||
Franco-Nevada Corp. | 29,027 | $4,106,258 | ||
Railroad & Shipping – 1.3% | ||||
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. | 17,862 | $1,276,061 | ||
Sankyu, Inc. | 59,300 | 1,774,429 | ||
$3,050,490 | ||||
Real Estate – 3.9% | ||||
Extra Space Storage, Inc., REIT | 4,937 | $879,773 | ||
Grand City Properties S.A. | 118,911 | 2,115,275 | ||
Life Storage, Inc., REIT | 19,015 | 2,220,191 | ||
Public Storage, Inc., REIT | 5,994 | 1,981,856 | ||
Sun Communities, Inc., REIT | 10,057 | 1,650,656 | ||
$8,847,751 | ||||
Restaurants – 2.6% | ||||
McDonald's Corp. | 10,964 | $2,765,230 | ||
Starbucks Corp. | 40,057 | 3,144,475 | ||
$5,909,705 | ||||
Specialty Chemicals – 1.1% | ||||
Symrise AG | 23,565 | $2,599,391 | ||
Specialty Stores – 0.9% | ||||
AutoZone, Inc. (a) | 589 | $1,213,134 | ||
Target Corp. | 5,221 | 845,175 | ||
$2,058,309 |
Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – continued | ||||
Telecommunications - Wireless – 5.4% | ||||
Advanced Info Service Public Co. Ltd. | 623,700 | $3,955,082 | ||
KDDI Corp. | 187,000 | 6,516,347 | ||
PLDT, Inc. | 50,005 | 1,813,591 | ||
$12,285,020 | ||||
Telephone Services – 0.9% | ||||
Orange S.A. | 162,092 | $2,026,913 | ||
Tobacco – 0.5% | ||||
British American Tobacco PLC | 27,318 | $1,205,508 | ||
Trucking – 0.6% | ||||
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc. | 27,929 | $1,358,467 | ||
Utilities - Electric Power – 6.3% | ||||
American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 24,344 | $2,483,818 | ||
CLP Holdings Ltd. | 469,500 | 4,681,718 | ||
Duke Energy Corp. | 9,242 | 1,039,910 | ||
E.ON SE | 78,673 | 801,013 | ||
Edison International | 16,099 | 1,125,481 | ||
Evergy, Inc. | 17,273 | 1,208,074 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. | 40,878 | 3,079,748 | ||
$14,419,762 | ||||
Total Common Stocks | $224,178,191 | |||
Preferred Stocks – 0.8% | ||||
Computer Software - Systems – 0.8% | ||||
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | 36,789 | $1,801,514 | ||
Investment Companies (h) – 0.6% | ||||
Money Market Funds – 0.6% | ||||
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.64% (v) | 1,324,182 | $1,324,182 | ||
Other Assets, Less Liabilities – 0.6% | 1,284,019 | |||
Net Assets – 100.0% | $228,587,906 |
(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 $1,324,182 and $225,979,705, respectively. | |||
(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 | $115,689,694 | $— | $— | $115,689,694 |
Japan | 12,176,936 | 14,169,772 | — | 26,346,708 |
Canada | 15,257,083 | — | — | 15,257,083 |
Switzerland | 10,763,180 | — | — | 10,763,180 |
Singapore | 1,795,134 | 6,781,435 | — | 8,576,569 |
Hong Kong | 4,681,718 | 2,493,611 | — | 7,175,329 |
Germany | 6,646,516 | — | — | 6,646,516 |
United Kingdom | 5,969,486 | — | — | 5,969,486 |
Denmark | 5,759,980 | — | — | 5,759,980 |
Other Countries | 21,993,646 | 1,801,514 | — | 23,795,160 |
Mutual Funds | 1,324,182 | — | — | 1,324,182 |
Total | $202,057,555 | $25,246,332 | $— | $227,303,887 |
Affiliated Issuers | Beginning Value | Purchases | Sales Proceeds | Realized Gain (Loss) | Change in Unrealized Appreciation or Depreciation | Ending Value |
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | $517,066 | $55,154,921 | $54,347,805 | $— | $— | $1,324,182 |
Affiliated Issuers | Dividend Income | Capital Gain Distributions |
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | $1,587 | $— |
United States | 51.6% |
Japan | 11.6% |
Canada | 6.7% |
Switzerland | 4.7% |
Singapore | 3.8% |
Hong Kong | 3.1% |
Germany | 2.9% |
United Kingdom | 2.6% |
Denmark | 2.5% |
Other Countries | 10.5% |