Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – 97.7% | ||||
Energy - Renewables – 4.6% | ||||
AES Corp. | 1,242,755 | $26,880,791 | ||
EDP Renovaveis S.A. | 4,664,561 | 89,085,255 | ||
Orsted A/S | 261,057 | 22,772,287 | ||
$138,738,333 | ||||
Natural Gas - Distribution – 2.7% | ||||
Atmos Energy Corp. | 396,597 | $48,269,821 | ||
China Resources Gas Group Ltd. | 4,478,200 | 15,446,227 | ||
Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. | 244,029 | 16,091,272 | ||
$79,807,320 | ||||
Telecommunications - Wireless – 6.6% | ||||
Cellnex Telecom S.A. | 2,126,546 | $86,838,420 | ||
Rogers Communications, Inc. | 699,848 | 30,644,389 | ||
SBA Communications Corp., REIT | 328,695 | 71,967,770 | ||
Vodafone Group PLC | 8,289,989 | 7,918,576 | ||
$197,369,155 | ||||
Telephone Services – 0.6% | ||||
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. | 1,128,630 | $17,807,327 | ||
Utilities - Electric Power – 81.7% | ||||
Alliant Energy Corp. | 1,384,887 | $74,423,827 | ||
Ameren Corp. | 1,131,698 | 96,952,568 | ||
American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 923,328 | 78,242,815 | ||
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. | 993,003 | 29,879,460 | ||
CLP Holdings Ltd. | 2,480,500 | 20,180,760 | ||
Constellation Energy | 817,593 | 79,020,364 | ||
Dominion Energy, Inc. | 3,150,097 | 168,687,694 | ||
DTE Energy Co. | 1,109,939 | 126,866,028 | ||
E.ON SE | 4,068,876 | 51,470,254 | ||
Edison International | 1,559,343 | 112,210,322 | ||
Enel S.p.A. | 10,113,120 | 69,740,723 | ||
Energias de Portugal S.A. | 8,226,319 | 38,440,561 | ||
Energisa S.A., IEU | 1,390,100 | 14,754,241 | ||
Equatorial Energia S.A. | 2,093,000 | 14,845,196 | ||
Evergy, Inc. | 1,054,093 | 63,213,957 | ||
Exelon Corp. | 1,138,894 | 47,674,103 | ||
Iberdrola S.A. | 2,365,834 | 29,537,018 | ||
National Grid PLC | 3,994,517 | 52,878,438 | ||
NextEra Energy, Inc. | 4,826,759 | 353,801,435 | ||
PG&E Corp. (a) | 10,410,969 | 183,337,164 | ||
Pinnacle West Capital Corp. | 564,756 | 46,773,092 | ||
Portland General Electric Co. | 779,717 | 37,169,109 | ||
PPL Corp. | 3,602,970 | 99,189,764 | ||
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | 746,785 | 47,137,069 | ||
RWE AG | 2,364,634 | 101,734,677 | ||
Sempra Energy | 820,769 | 122,310,996 | ||
Southern Co. | 2,078,042 | 150,325,558 | ||
SSE PLC | 2,826,961 | 61,149,610 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. | 1,110,711 | 69,674,901 | ||
$2,441,621,704 |
Issuer | Shares/Par | Value ($) | ||
Common Stocks – continued | ||||
Utilities - Water – 1.5% | ||||
United Utilities Group PLC | 204,563 | $2,622,634 | ||
Veolia Environnement S.A. | 1,265,304 | 41,179,572 | ||
$43,802,206 | ||||
Total Common Stocks | $2,919,146,045 | |||
Preferred Stocks – 0.9% | ||||
Utilities - Electric Power – 0.9% | ||||
AES Corp. | 317,420 | $27,167,978 | ||
Investment Companies (h) – 0.7% | ||||
Money Market Funds – 0.7% | ||||
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 5.25% (v) | 21,087,629 | $21,087,629 | ||
Other Assets, Less Liabilities – 0.7% | 20,102,721 | |||
Net Assets – 100.0% | $2,987,504,373 |
(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 $21,087,629 and $2,946,314,023, 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: | |
IEU | International Equity Unit |
REIT | Real Estate Investment Trust |
Abbreviations indicate amounts shown in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. All amounts are stated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated. A list of abbreviations is shown below: | |
CAD | Canadian Dollar |
EUR | Euro |
GBP | British Pound |
Derivative Contracts at 7/31/23 | ||||||
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts | ||||||
Currency Purchased | Currency Sold | Counterparty | Settlement Date | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | ||
Asset Derivatives | ||||||
USD | 18,339,678 | CAD | 24,148,261 | HSBC Bank | 10/20/2023 | $7,136 |
USD | 379,365,093 | EUR | 336,432,713 | State Street Bank Corp. | 10/20/2023 | 7,998,900 |
USD | 286,526 | GBP | 222,757 | HSBC Bank | 10/20/2023 | 588 |
USD | 286,262 | GBP | 222,257 | Morgan Stanley Capital Services, Inc. | 10/20/2023 | 966 |
USD | 82,756,081 | GBP | 64,134,255 | State Street Bank Corp. | 10/20/2023 | 431,399 |
$8,438,989 | ||||||
Liability Derivatives | ||||||
EUR | 6,177,917 | USD | 6,938,132 | Morgan Stanley Capital Services, Inc. | 10/20/2023 | $(118,731) |
EUR | 5,027,612 | USD | 5,577,461 | State Street Bank Corp. | 10/20/2023 | (27,807) |
GBP | 1,839,674 | USD | 2,372,668 | BNP Paribas S.A. | 10/20/2023 | (11,207) |
USD | 1,680,174 | CAD | 2,219,708 | Citibank N.A. | 10/20/2023 | (4,953) |
$(162,698) |
Financial Instruments | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total |
Equity Securities | $2,946,314,023 | $— | $— | $2,946,314,023 |
Mutual Funds | 21,087,629 | — | — | 21,087,629 |
Total | $2,967,401,652 | $— | $— | $2,967,401,652 |
Other Financial Instruments | ||||
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts – Assets | $— | $8,438,989 | $— | $8,438,989 |
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts – Liabilities | — | (162,698) | — | (162,698) |
Affiliated Issuers | Beginning Value | Purchases | Sales Proceeds | Realized Gain (Loss) | Change in Unrealized Appreciation or Depreciation | Ending Value |
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | $25,673,112 | $304,063,594 | $308,657,857 | $10,354 | $(1,574) | $21,087,629 |
Affiliated Issuers | Dividend Income | Capital Gain Distributions |
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | $720,667 | $— |
United States | 74.3% |
Germany | 5.1% |
Portugal | 4.3% |
United Kingdom | 4.2% |
Spain | 3.9% |
Italy | 2.3% |
France | 1.4% |
Canada | 1.0% |
Brazil | 1.0% |
Other Countries | 2.5% |