ETF comparison
EEM vs VEA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
101 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EEM and VEA would leave roughly 6.5% 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
VEA is 69 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $690/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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
101 shared in total| # | Holding | In EEM | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 7.16% | 1.55% | 1.55% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.42% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 3 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.89% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 4 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.56% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 5 | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 0.48% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY | 0.32% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | KB Financial Group Inc. | 0.36% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 8 | Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. | 0.27% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. | 0.22% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION | 0.18% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | POWSZECHNA KASA OSZCZEDNOSCI BANK POLSKI SPOLKA AKCYJNA | 0.22% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | Lenovo Group Limited | 0.23% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in EEM
1,092 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 15.03%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.87%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.94%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.45%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.92%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.83%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.78%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.70%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.66%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.64%
Only in VEA
3,761 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Siemens AG 0.73%
- Shell PLC 0.67%
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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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