ETF comparison
ESGE vs EWY
Both International Emerging.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Holdings overlap
34 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and EWY would leave roughly 20.1% 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
ESGE is 34 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $340/yr more in fees for EWY.
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 ESGE vs EWY.
Top shared holdings
34 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In EWY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 7.25% | 22.13% | 7.25% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.55% | 20.96% | 5.55% |
| 3 | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 0.70% | 2.96% | 0.70% |
| 4 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.65% | 3.17% | 0.65% |
| 5 | KB Financial Group Inc. | 0.60% | 2.10% | 0.60% |
| 6 | Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. | 0.56% | 1.66% | 0.56% |
| 7 | Hana Financial Group Inc. | 0.51% | 1.43% | 0.51% |
| 8 | SK Inc. | 0.41% | 0.75% | 0.41% |
| 9 | Woori Financial Group Inc. | 0.40% | 0.96% | 0.40% |
| 10 | SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD. | 0.36% | 1.29% | 0.36% |
| 11 | SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION | 0.26% | 1.17% | 0.26% |
| 12 | SK Innovation Co., Ltd. | 0.26% | 0.38% | 0.26% |
Only in ESGE
253 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 15.08%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.56%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.71%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.41%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 1.19%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.09%
- Lenovo Group Limited 1.05%
- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 1.05%
- Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. 0.84%
- AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC 0.82%
Only in EWY
44 total- HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 1.32%
- Celltrion, Inc. 1.15%
- KIA CORPORATION 1.14%
- HYUNDAI MOBIS CO.,LTD 1.02%
- SAMSUNG BIOLOGICS CO.,LTD. 0.86%
- LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD. 0.80%
- Alteogen Inc 0.80%
- KT&G Corporation 0.78%
- HD KOREA SHIPBUILDING & OFFSHORE ENGINEERING CO., LTD. 0.69%
- APR Co Ltd 0.69%
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- ESGE vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 18.3%
- ESGE vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 13.9%
- ESGE vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 11.8%
- ESGE vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 10.0%
More comparisons with EWY
- EWY vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 19.9%
- EWY vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 17.4%
- EWY vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 14.9%
- EWY vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 11.1%
- EWY vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 10.4%
- EWY vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 5.7%
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
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/methodology/.
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