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Quarterly Report
February 29, 2024
MFS®  Emerging Markets    
Equity Fund
FEM-Q3

Portfolio of Investments
2/29/24 (unaudited)
The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.
Issuer     Shares/Par Value ($)
Common Stocks – 98.3%
Alcoholic Beverages – 3.9%  
Ambev S.A., ADR   33,504,323 $83,425,764
China Resources Beer Holdings Co. Ltd.   11,740,000 50,906,571
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd., “A”   434,609 102,410,212
Wuliangye Yibin Co. Ltd., “A”   2,736,918 54,123,878
        $290,866,425
Automotive – 3.0%  
BYD Co. Ltd.   2,079,500 $51,340,105
Hero MotoCorp Ltd.   717,967 38,328,807
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.   5,691,714 132,647,920
        $222,316,832
Biotechnology – 0.9%  
Hugel, Inc. (a)   489,363 $67,583,250
Brokerage & Asset Managers – 0.7%  
B3 S.A. - Brasil Bolsa Balcao   20,108,300 $51,897,867
Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS PJSC (a)(u)   65,313,565 0
        $51,897,867
Business Services – 4.8%  
Infosys Ltd.   7,621,546 $153,862,552
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.   3,110,177 153,606,631
Tech Mahindra Ltd.   3,085,104 47,396,738
        $354,865,921
Chemicals – 1.1%  
UPL Ltd.   14,700,187 $83,272,915
Computer Software – 0.8%  
Kingsoft Corp.   22,516,000 $62,836,018
Computer Software - Systems – 7.5%  
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.   41,519,000 $135,290,245
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   7,696,970 424,269,749
        $559,559,994
Conglomerates – 0.8%  
LG Corp.   808,425 $56,886,019
Construction – 3.8%  
Anhui Conch Cement Co. Ltd.   16,660,000 $36,428,789
Gree Electric Appliances, Inc., “A”   17,147,239 93,087,225
Midea Group Co. Ltd., “A”   6,785,608 59,080,753
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd.   7,743,500 83,819,098
Zhejiang Supor Co. Ltd., “A”   1,527,352 11,737,673
        $284,153,538
Consumer Products – 0.2%  
AmorePacific Corp.   175,802 $15,789,966
Electronics – 9.8%  
ASE Technology Holding Co. Ltd   8,515,000 $37,443,965
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.   31,622,695 690,288,032
        $727,731,997
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Portfolio of Investments (unaudited) – continued
Issuer     Shares/Par Value ($)
Common Stocks – continued
Energy - Independent – 0.9%  
Reliance Industries Ltd.   1,917,314 $67,557,621
Energy - Integrated – 4.1%  
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.   36,270,000 $20,058,637
Galp Energia SGPS S.A., “B”   6,903,431 108,710,044
LUKOIL PJSC (a)(u)   1,176,212 0
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., ADR   6,281,343 103,767,786
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., ADR   3,211,204 51,925,169
Petronet LNG Ltd.   5,415,801 17,860,803
        $302,322,439
Engineering - Construction – 0.9%  
Doosan Bobcat, Inc.   1,841,373 $64,923,748
Food & Beverages – 3.4%  
Gruma S.A.B. de C.V.   3,052,444 $54,358,997
Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co. Ltd., “A”   31,020,227 122,256,759
Orion Corp.   665,861 46,454,256
Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp.   24,292,000 27,085,913
        $250,155,925
Food & Drug Stores – 0.3%  
BIM Birlesik Magazalar A.S.   1,927,029 $23,955,590
Forest & Paper Products – 0.8%  
Suzano S.A.   5,014,300 $56,839,694
Insurance – 5.8%  
AIA Group Ltd.   6,907,800 $56,112,916
DB Insurance Co. Ltd.   910,169 67,531,314
Discovery Ltd.   4,489,222 31,808,408
Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd.   1,838,537 43,491,976
Ping An Insurance Co. of China Ltd., “H”   31,499,500 141,213,673
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd.   413,012 92,428,339
        $432,586,626
Internet – 7.4%  
Baidu, Inc., ADR (a)   182,368 $18,479,350
MakeMyTrip Ltd. (a)   497,486 30,689,911
NAVER Corp.   252,564 36,985,566
NetEase, Inc., ADR   1,046,844 112,975,405
Tencent Holdings Ltd.   9,829,000 347,991,417
        $547,121,649
Machinery & Tools – 1.5%  
Delta Electronics, Inc.   12,128,000 $112,994,385
Major Banks – 3.6%  
Banco Bradesco S.A., ADR   29,974,249 $83,328,412
Bandhan Bank Ltd.   17,088,408 40,311,671
Erste Group Bank AG   2,297,318 91,620,491
Nedbank Group Ltd.   4,465,153 51,027,992
        $266,288,566
Medical & Health Technology & Services – 0.0%  
Burning Rock Biotech Ltd., ADR (a)   3,397,883 $2,697,919
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Portfolio of Investments (unaudited) – continued
Issuer     Shares/Par Value ($)
Common Stocks – continued
Metals & Mining – 2.6%  
Industries Qatar Q.P.S.C.   4,961,952 $17,580,110
PT United Tractors Tbk   55,652,800 83,310,984
Vale S.A., ADR   6,995,465 93,809,186
        $194,700,280
Natural Gas - Distribution – 0.6%  
China Resources Gas Group Ltd.   15,074,800 $45,631,619
Network & Telecom – 0.2%  
GDS Holdings Ltd., “A” (a)   4,756,600 $4,040,027
GDS Holdings Ltd., ADR (a)(l)   1,558,291 10,643,127
        $14,683,154
Other Banks & Diversified Financials – 13.0%  
Bangkok Bank Public Co. Ltd.   18,463,300 $73,101,592
Bank Negara Indonesia PT   169,489,400 64,711,193
China Construction Bank Corp.   196,918,490 122,736,092
China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd.   11,812,500 46,091,305
Credicorp Ltd.   638,802 109,158,486
Emirates NBD Bank PJSC   12,436,269 61,962,108
Grupo Financiero Banorte S.A. de C.V.   2,535,438 26,213,819
HDFC Bank Ltd.   7,919,226 134,036,956
IndusInd Bank Ltd.   2,169,800 38,596,029
KB Financial Group, Inc.   2,002,722 95,503,790
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.   5,883,233 119,873,101
Sberbank of Russia PJSC (u)   50,760,059 0
SK Square Co. Ltd. (a)   417,370 21,909,104
Tisco Financial Group PCL   17,585,800 49,278,486
        $963,172,061
Pharmaceuticals – 0.3%  
Genomma Lab Internacional S.A., “B” (l)   24,446,194 $18,875,099
Precious Metals & Minerals – 1.2%  
Gold Fields Ltd., ADR   5,155,108 $67,222,608
Polymetal International PLC (a)   6,292,661 22,653,580
        $89,876,188
Real Estate – 2.5%  
Emaar Properties PJSC   47,769,676 $105,607,146
ESR Group Ltd.   15,445,200 20,634,369
Hang Lung Properties Ltd.   31,433,000 33,964,261
SM Investments Corp.   1,346,230 22,511,006
        $182,716,782
Restaurants – 1.4%  
Yum China Holdings, Inc.   2,440,761 $104,684,239
Specialty Chemicals – 0.4%  
Saudi Basic Industries Corp.   1,545,673 $32,477,144
Specialty Stores – 6.1%  
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.   23,615,148 $219,879,212
JD.com, Inc., “A”   1,895,109 21,554,308
JD.com, Inc., ADR   113,925 2,576,984
Lojas Renner S.A.   4,915,177 15,622,256
Multiplan Empreendimentos Imobiliarios S.A.   4,603,283 24,455,896
Vipshop Holdings Ltd., ADR (a)   3,569,522 68,713,298
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Portfolio of Investments (unaudited) – continued
Issuer     Shares/Par Value ($)
Common Stocks – continued
Specialty Stores – continued  
Walmart de Mexico S.A.B. de C.V.   25,129,826 $100,626,934
        $453,428,888
Telecommunications - Wireless – 2.4%  
Advanced Info Service Public Co. Ltd.   6,771,500 $38,516,269
Etihad Etisalat Co.   4,228,268 62,347,871
PT Telekom Indonesia   298,237,500 75,911,550
        $176,775,690
Telephone Services – 0.7%  
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A.   3,603,313 $54,366,646
Tobacco – 0.9%  
British American Tobacco PLC   2,244,912 $66,451,470
Total Common Stocks   $7,303,044,164
Investment Companies (h) – 1.6%
Money Market Funds – 1.6%  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 5.37% (v)     121,315,699 $121,315,699
Collateral for Securities Loaned – 0.1%
State Street Navigator Securities Lending Government Money Market Portfolio, 5.34% (j)     3,475,012 $3,475,012
 
Other Assets, Less Liabilities – 0.0%   2,740,635
Net Assets – 100.0% $7,430,575,510
(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 $121,315,699 and $7,306,519,176, respectively.      
(j) The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.      
(l) A portion of this security is on loan. See Note 2 for additional information.      
(u) The security was valued using significant unobservable inputs and is considered level 3 under the fair value hierarchy.      
(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
PCL Public Company Limited
See attached supplemental information. For more information see notes to financial statements as disclosed in the most recent semiannual or annual report.
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Supplemental Information
2/29/24 (unaudited)
The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies.
(1) Investment Valuations
Subject to its oversight, the fund's Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments to MFS as the fund's adviser, pursuant to the fund’s valuation policy and procedures which have been adopted by the adviser and approved by the Board. In accordance with Rule 2a-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Board of Trustees designated the adviser as the “valuation designee” of the fund. If the adviser, as valuation designee, determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available for an investment, the investment is valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with the adviser’s fair valuation policy and procedures.
Under the fund's valuation policy and procedures, equity securities, including restricted equity securities, are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.
Under the fund’s valuation policy and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for debt instruments, floating rate loans, and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services or otherwise determined by the adviser in accordance with the adviser’s fair valuation policy and procedures. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, spreads and other market data. An investment may also be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that the investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund's assets or liabilities. These inputs are categorized into three broad levels. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment's level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund's assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other
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Supplemental Information (unaudited) – continued
significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes significant unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of February 29, 2024 in valuing the fund's assets and liabilities:
Financial Instruments Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Equity Securities:        
China $1,961,260,508 $— $— $1,961,260,508
India 1,058,041,655 1,058,041,655
South Korea 1,033,757,077 1,033,757,077
Taiwan 976,016,627 976,016,627
Brazil 565,072,030 565,072,030
Indonesia 223,933,727 223,933,727
Mexico 200,074,849 200,074,849
Hong Kong 194,530,644 194,530,644
United Arab Emirates 167,569,254 167,569,254
Other Countries 873,509,307 49,278,486 0 922,787,793
Mutual Funds 124,790,711 124,790,711
Total $7,378,556,389 $49,278,486 $0 $7,427,834,875
For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.  At February 29, 2024, the fund held three level 3 securities valued at $0, which were also held and valued at $0 at May 31, 2023.
(2) Securities Lending Collateral
At February 29, 2024, the value of securities loaned was $3,302,021. These loans were collateralized by cash of $3,475,012 and U.S. Treasury Obligations (held by the lending agent) of $32,476.
(3) Investments in Affiliated Issuers
An affiliated issuer 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. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:
Affiliated Issuers Beginning
Value
Purchases Sales
Proceeds
Realized
Gain
(Loss)
Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
Ending
Value
Hugel, Inc. * $52,217,688 $— $14,709,115 $(13,168,701) $43,243,378 $—
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio 102,816,830 793,975,786 775,483,654 (5,886) 12,623 $121,315,699
  $155,034,518 $793,975,786 $790,192,769 $(13,174,587) $43,256,001 $121,315,699
Affiliated Issuers Dividend
Income
Capital Gain
Distributions
Hugel, Inc. * $— $—
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio 4,928,518
  $4,928,518 $—
*Held at period end. No longer considered an affiliated issuer.    
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(4) Issuer Country Weightings
Issuer country weighting percentages of portfolio holdings based on net assets, as of February 29, 2024, are as follows:
China 26.4%
India 14.2%
South Korea 13.9%
Taiwan 13.1%
Brazil 7.6%
Indonesia 3.0%
Mexico 2.7%
Hong Kong 2.6%
United Arab Emirates 2.3%
Other Countries 14.2%
(5) Russia and Ukraine Conflict
The fund invests in securities and/or derivative instruments that are economically tied to Russia and/or Ukraine. Escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in late February 2022 caused market volatility and disruption in the tradability of Russian securities, including closure of the local securities market, temporary restriction on securities sales by non-residents, and disruptions to clearance and payment systems. To the extent that the fund is unable to sell securities, whether due to market constraints or to the sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and other countries, those securities are considered illiquid and the value of those securities reflects their illiquid classification. Management continues to monitor these events and to evaluate the related impacts on fund performance.
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