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EWY vs KSA

Both International Emerging.

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWY unmatched 99.1% 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 EWY only
78 positions
Shared
0 positions
In KSA only
117 positions

Side by side

EWY

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF

iShares · International Emerging

61 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$22.30B
TTM yield
1.46%
Top-10 conc.
58.8%
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
78
Tax efficiency
75
100
Liquidity
45
30
Concentration
31
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Tracking quality
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EWY sub-score KSA

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

Cost difference

EWY 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 EWY vs KSA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWY

78 total
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 22.13%
  • SK hynix Inc. 20.96%
  • SK Square Co., Ltd. 3.17%
  • SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 2.96%
  • KB Financial Group Inc. 2.10%
  • HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 1.74%
  • Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. 1.66%
  • Hana Financial Group Inc. 1.43%
  • HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 1.32%
  • SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD. 1.29%

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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