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EFA vs IEMG

International Developed vs International Emerging.

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFA and IEMG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EFA unmatched 99.6% Shared 0.0% IEMG unmatched 99.5%

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.

In EFA only
674 positions
Shared
0 positions
In IEMG only
2,901 positions

Side by side

EFA

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF

iShares · International Developed

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.32%
Net assets
$76.62B
TTM yield
3.22%
Top-10 conc.
13.9%
IEMG

iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

iShares · International Emerging

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$145.91B
TTM yield
2.44%
Top-10 conc.
32.7%

Sub-score comparison

68
Cost
91
77
Tax efficiency
76
100
Liquidity
100
94
Concentration
68
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Tracking quality
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EFA sub-score IEMG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

IEMG is 23 bps cheaper than EFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for EFA.

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 EFA vs IEMG.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EFA

674 total
  • ASML Holding N.V. 2.90%
  • HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.66%
  • Roche Holding AG 1.39%
  • Novartis AG 1.30%
  • Nestle S.A. 1.17%
  • SHELL PLC 1.17%
  • ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.17%
  • Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1.10%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 1.08%
  • BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.97%

Only in IEMG

2,901 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 13.17%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.28%
  • SK hynix Inc. 4.76%
  • Tencent Holdings Limited 2.52%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.70%
  • MediaTek Inc. 1.27%
  • DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.80%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.77%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.73%
  • HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.68%

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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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