ETF comparison
EMXC vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
584 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMXC and VT would leave roughly 7.9% 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 19 bps cheaper than EMXC. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/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 VT.
Top shared holdings
584 shared in total| # | Holding | In EMXC | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 18.92% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 9.02% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 6.83% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.82% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 5 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.10% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.15% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.98% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.87% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.83% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.82% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | 0.54% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.70% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in EMXC
32 total- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.24%
- HonPrecision Inc 0.15%
- PTT Public Company Limited 0.12%
- ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.11%
- Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited 0.08%
- GULF DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.07%
- CP All Public Company Limited 0.07%
- Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited 0.06%
- Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. 0.06%
- PTT EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.06%
Only in VT
9,466 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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- EMXC vs ILF · iShares Latin America 40 ETF 3.8%
- EMXC vs KSA · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF 3.1%
- EMXC vs EWW · iShares MSCI Mexico ETF 2.1%
- EMXC vs ASHR · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VT
- VT vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 7.7%
- VT vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 7.0%
- VT vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 6.6%
- VT vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 5.9%
- VT vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 5.9%
- VT vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 5.3%
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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