ETF comparison
EEM vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,153 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EEM and VT would leave roughly 10.3% 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
VT is 66 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $660/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 VT.
Top shared holdings
1,153 shared in total| # | Holding | In EEM | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 15.03% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 7.16% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.42% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.87% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.94% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.45% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.83% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.89% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.92% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.78% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.70% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.64% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in EEM
40 total- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.19%
- HonPrecision Inc 0.12%
- PTT Public Company Limited 0.10%
- ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.08%
- H World Group Limited 0.07%
- Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited 0.06%
- GULF DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.06%
- CP All Public Company Limited 0.06%
- Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited 0.05%
- Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. 0.05%
Only in VT
8,897 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.80%
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More comparisons with VT
- VT vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 9.8%
- VT vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 9.5%
- VT vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 9.2%
- VT vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 9.0%
- VT vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 8.8%
- VT vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 8.6%
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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