Foreign Holdings of U.S. Equities, All Countries · USD bn

## What this measures

The market value of U.S. corporate stocks and other equity held by all foreign residents at the end of each month, in billions of dollars, from Treasury's TIC system. September 2011 to August 2026.

## Why it matters

Foreign investors own a large and growing slice of the U.S. stock market; how much, and how fast it grows, says how dependent U.S. asset prices are on foreign money, and how exposed the rest of the world is to a U.S. downturn.

## How to read it

August 2026: $25.18 trillion. Most of the change from month to month is price, not buying; net purchases are a separate TIC series.

## What it does not say

TIC attributes holdings to the country where the custodian or the reporting investor sits, not to the ultimate owner, so financial centres (the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Switzerland) stand in for investors elsewhere. Market value, so it moves with U.S. share prices as much as with buying and selling. Includes fund shares and other equity, not only listed stocks. Before 2020 the series is the older Table 1D; Treasury revised the overlapping months, so a small step at January 2020 is possible.

## Source

U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve Board, Treasury International Capital (TIC) System: monthly "U.S. Long-Term Securities Held by Foreign Residents" (https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt_table1.txt, column for_lt_eqty_pos) and, before 2020, the former Table 1D history (https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt1d_globl.csv). U.S. government work, public domain. Read weekly by /api/cron/tic-holders-sync.