ETF comparison
EWY vs IEMG
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI South Korea ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
83 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWY and IEMG would leave roughly 15.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IEMG is 50 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $500/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 EWY vs IEMG.
Top shared holdings
83 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWY | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 29.30% | 5.29% | 5.29% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 19.91% | 3.01% | 3.01% |
| 3 | Hyundai Motor Co | 3.22% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 4 | SK Square Co Ltd | 2.25% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 5 | KB Financial Group Inc | 2.08% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 6 | Kia Corp | 1.73% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Doosan Enerbility Co Ltd | 1.72% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd | 1.46% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 9 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 1.46% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 10 | Celltrion Inc | 1.37% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | NAVER Corp | 1.27% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 1.24% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in EWY
1 total- BlackRock Funds III 2.15%
Only in IEMG
2,590 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 11.41%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 3.14%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.32%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.82%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.73%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.72%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.70%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.70%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.65%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.57%
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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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