ETF comparison
EMXC vs IEMG
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
616 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMXC and IEMG would leave roughly 69.4% 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
IEMG is 16 bps cheaper than EMXC. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for EMXC.
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 EMXC vs IEMG.
Top shared holdings
616 shared in total| # | Holding | In EMXC | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 18.92% | 13.17% | 13.17% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 9.02% | 6.28% | 6.28% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 6.83% | 4.76% | 4.76% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.82% | 1.27% | 1.27% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.15% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 6 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.10% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.98% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.87% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.82% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.83% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 11 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.70% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 12 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.63% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
Only in EMXC
0 totalEvery EMXC position is also held by IEMG.
Only in IEMG
2,285 total- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.52%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.70%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.73%
- INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 0.45%
- XIAOMI CORPORATION 0.43%
- BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 0.36%
- MEITUAN 0.36%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.35%
- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. 0.34%
- NETEASE, INC. 0.30%
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- EMXC vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 57.6%
- EMXC vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 57.1%
- EMXC vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 50.9%
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- IEMG vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 62.7%
- IEMG vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 58.7%
- IEMG vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 54.1%
- IEMG vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 39.8%
- IEMG vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 38.8%
- IEMG vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 34.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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