ETF comparison
EWY vs IEMG
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI South Korea ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
78 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWY and IEMG would leave roughly 17.4% 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
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
78 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWY | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 22.13% | 6.28% | 6.28% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc. | 20.96% | 4.76% | 4.76% |
| 3 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 3.17% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 4 | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 2.96% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 5 | KB Financial Group Inc. | 2.10% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY | 1.74% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. | 1.66% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Hana Financial Group Inc. | 1.43% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. | 1.32% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 10 | DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. | 1.29% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD. | 1.29% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION | 1.17% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in EWY
0 totalEvery EWY position is also held by IEMG.
Only in IEMG
2,823 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 13.17%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.52%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.70%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.27%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.80%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.73%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.68%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.60%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.57%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.56%
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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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