ETF comparison
EEM vs KWEB
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF
Holdings overlap
21 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EEM and KWEB would leave roughly 7.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
KWEB is 3 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for EEM.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with EEM vs KWEB.
Top shared holdings
21 shared in total| # | Holding | In EEM | In KWEB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.87% | 10.44% | 2.87% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.94% | 7.70% | 1.94% |
| 3 | MEITUAN | 0.41% | 6.83% | 0.41% |
| 4 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.39% | 7.92% | 0.39% |
| 5 | NETEASE, INC. | 0.35% | 6.97% | 0.35% |
| 6 | JD.COM, INC. | 0.26% | 3.87% | 0.26% |
| 7 | TRIP.COM GROUP LIMITED | 0.21% | 3.69% | 0.21% |
| 8 | BAIDU, INC. | 0.20% | 4.19% | 0.20% |
| 9 | KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY | 0.10% | 4.08% | 0.10% |
| 10 | KE Holdings Inc. | 0.09% | 3.89% | 0.09% |
| 11 | KANZHUN LIMITED | 0.05% | 3.21% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. | 0.05% | 4.15% | 0.05% |
Only in EEM
1,172 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 15.03%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.16%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.42%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.45%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.92%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.89%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.83%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.78%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.70%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.66%
Only in KWEB
13 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 4.63%
- JOYY INC. 1.28%
- XD INC. 1.05%
- East Buy Holding Ltd 1.02%
- MEITU, INC. 1.00%
- Qfin Holdings, Inc. 0.97%
- ZhongAn Online P & C Insurance Co., Ltd. 0.97%
- Autohome Inc 0.85%
- China Literature Ltd 0.82%
- Netease Cloud Music Inc 0.72%
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- KWEB vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 5.6%
- KWEB vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 3.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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