ETF comparison
ESGE vs KSA
Both International Emerging.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF
Holdings overlap
6 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and KSA would leave roughly 2.0% 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
ESGE is 50 bps cheaper than KSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $500/yr more in fees for KSA.
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 KSA.
Top shared holdings
6 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In KSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 0.82% | 13.98% | 0.82% |
| 2 | Saudi Telecom Company SJSC | 0.47% | 5.43% | 0.47% |
| 3 | Etihad Etisalat Company SJSC | 0.32% | 1.98% | 0.32% |
| 4 | Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Services Group Company | 0.18% | 1.61% | 0.18% |
| 5 | Saudi Arabian Mining Company SJSC | 0.15% | 4.84% | 0.15% |
| 6 | ACWA POWER Company SJSC | 0.10% | 2.76% | 0.10% |
Only in ESGE
281 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 15.08%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.25%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.55%
- 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%
Only in KSA
111 total- Saudi Arabian Oil Company 10.83%
- The Saudi National Bank SJSC 8.77%
- Riyad Bank SJSC 3.21%
- ALINMA BANK SJSC 2.96%
- Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SJSC 2.89%
- Saudi Awwal Bank SJSC 2.70%
- Banque Saudi Fransi SJSC 2.10%
- Almarai Company SJSC 1.86%
- SABIC Agri-Nutrients Company SJSC 1.81%
- Arab National Bank SJSC 1.58%
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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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