ETF comparison
IEMG vs KSA
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF
Holdings overlap
104 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and KSA would leave roughly 2.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IEMG is 66 bps cheaper than KSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $660/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 IEMG vs KSA.
Top shared holdings
104 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In KSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 0.39% | 14.42% | 0.39% |
| 2 | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | 0.29% | 10.76% | 0.29% |
| 3 | The Saudi National Bank SJSC | 0.24% | 8.80% | 0.24% |
| 4 | Saudi Arabian Mining Company SJSC | 0.19% | 6.08% | 0.19% |
| 5 | Saudi Telecom Company SJSC | 0.17% | 4.29% | 0.17% |
| 6 | Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SJSC | 0.09% | 3.27% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Riyad Bank SJSC | 0.08% | 3.30% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Saudi Awwal Bank SJSC | 0.07% | 2.79% | 0.07% |
| 9 | ALINMA BANK SJSC | 0.07% | 2.77% | 0.07% |
| 10 | SABIC Agri-Nutrients Company SJSC | 0.06% | 1.77% | 0.06% |
| 11 | ACWA POWER Company SJSC | 0.05% | 2.06% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Etihad Etisalat Company SJSC | 0.05% | 1.96% | 0.05% |
Only in IEMG
2,569 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 11.41%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 5.29%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 3.14%
- SK hynix Inc. 3.01%
- 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%
Only in KSA
20 total- Al Rajhi REIT Fund 0.21%
- Jadwa REIT Saudi Fund 0.20%
- Al Majed for Oud Company SJSC 0.17%
- Dr Soliman Abdel Kader Fakeeh Hospital Company SCJSC 0.17%
- Almoosa Health Company SJSC 0.15%
- Riyadh Cement Company SJSC 0.15%
- Specialized Medical Company SCJSC 0.14%
- Bawan Company SJSC 0.14%
- Derayah Financial CJSC 0.13%
- Advanced Building Industries Co. SJSC 0.12%
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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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