ETF comparison
ESGE vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
235 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and VWO would leave roughly 46.4% 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
VWO is 19 bps cheaper than ESGE. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/yr more in fees for ESGE.
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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
235 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 15.08% | 15.56% | 15.08% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.56% | 3.31% | 2.56% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.71% | 2.41% | 1.71% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.41% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 5 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 1.19% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 6 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.09% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 7 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.80% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 8 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.65% | 0.66% | 0.65% |
| 9 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.60% | 0.81% | 0.60% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.55% | 0.69% | 0.55% |
| 11 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.56% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 12 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.44% | 0.55% | 0.44% |
Only in ESGE
52 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.25%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.55%
- Lenovo Group Limited 1.05%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.94%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.70%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.65%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.60%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. 0.56%
- Allegro.eu SA 0.54%
- Hana Financial Group Inc. 0.51%
Only in VWO
4,745 total- PDD Holdings Inc 0.59%
- Bharti Airtel Ltd 0.55%
- Vale SA 0.46%
- Saudi Arabian Oil Co 0.36%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.33%
- OTP Bank Nyrt 0.29%
- Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.29%
- FirstRand Ltd 0.28%
- Kuwait Finance House KSCP 0.27%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with ESGE
- ESGE vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 44.0%
- ESGE vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 35.1%
- ESGE vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 34.6%
- ESGE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 34.4%
- ESGE vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 27.6%
- ESGE vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 20.1%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 46.4%
- VWO vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 45.1%
- VWO vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 43.2%
- VWO vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 28.0%
- VWO vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 26.8%
- VWO vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
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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