ETF comparison
EMXC vs IXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
615 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMXC and IXUS would leave roughly 22.0% 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
IXUS is 18 bps cheaper than EMXC. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/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 IXUS.
Top shared holdings
615 shared in total| # | Holding | In EMXC | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 18.92% | 4.29% | 4.29% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 9.02% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 6.83% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.82% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 5 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.10% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.15% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.98% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.87% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.82% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.83% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.70% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | 0.54% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in EMXC
1 total- TMBTHANACHART BANK PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.02%
Only in IXUS
3,874 total- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
- Nestle S.A. 0.60%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.60%
- SHELL PLC 0.60%
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- EMXC vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 14.2%
- EMXC vs FLIN · Franklin FTSE India ETF 14.1%
- EMXC vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 12.6%
- EMXC vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 7.9%
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 21.7%
- IXUS vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 21.6%
- IXUS vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 19.4%
- IXUS vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 19.2%
- IXUS vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 18.1%
- IXUS vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 15.9%
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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