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EWT vs KSA

Both International Emerging.

iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWT and KSA would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWT unmatched 99.5% Shared 0.0% KSA unmatched 99.5%

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.

In EWT only
78 positions
Shared
0 positions
In KSA only
117 positions

Side by side

EWT

iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF

iShares · International Emerging

63 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$11.05B
TTM yield
2.97%
Top-10 conc.
47.0%
KSA

iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

iShares · International Emerging

41 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.75%
Net assets
$557.0M
TTM yield
2.90%
Top-10 conc.
58.4%

Sub-score comparison

41
Cost
25
75
Tax efficiency
75
100
Liquidity
45
47
Concentration
31
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Tracking quality
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EWT sub-score KSA

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

EWT is 16 bps cheaper than KSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/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 EWT vs KSA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWT

78 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 20.31%
  • MediaTek Inc. 6.05%
  • DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 3.97%
  • HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 3.35%
  • ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 2.62%
  • ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. 2.40%
  • NAN YA PLASTICS CORPORATION 2.22%
  • UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. 2.20%
  • United Microelectronics Corporation 1.94%
  • Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd. 1.91%

Only in KSA

117 total
  • AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC 13.98%
  • Saudi Arabian Oil Company 10.83%
  • The Saudi National Bank SJSC 8.77%
  • Saudi Telecom Company SJSC 5.43%
  • Saudi Arabian Mining Company SJSC 4.84%
  • Riyad Bank SJSC 3.21%
  • ALINMA BANK SJSC 2.96%
  • Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SJSC 2.89%
  • ACWA POWER Company SJSC 2.76%
  • Saudi Awwal Bank SJSC 2.70%

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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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