ETF comparison
IEMG vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,262 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and VWO would leave roughly 72.3% 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
VWO is 3 bps cheaper than IEMG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IEMG.
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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
2,262 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 13.17% | 15.56% | 13.17% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.52% | 3.31% | 2.52% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.70% | 2.41% | 1.70% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.27% | 1.36% | 1.27% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.80% | 0.82% | 0.80% |
| 6 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.73% | 0.90% | 0.73% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.68% | 0.81% | 0.68% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.60% | 0.78% | 0.60% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.57% | 0.80% | 0.57% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.56% | 0.69% | 0.56% |
| 11 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.45% | 0.66% | 0.45% |
| 12 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.44% | 0.49% | 0.44% |
Only in IEMG
639 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.28%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.76%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.77%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.49%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.42%
- Nu Holdings Ltd. 0.38%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.31%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.28%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. 0.24%
- Lenovo Group Limited 0.20%
Only in VWO
2,718 total- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.20%
- PTT PCL 0.12%
- Kasikornbank PCL 0.09%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.09%
- Banca Transilvania SA 0.07%
- Gulf Development PCL 0.07%
- H World Group Ltd 0.07%
- Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd 0.07%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.07%
- SCB X PCL 0.06%
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- IEMG vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 69.4%
- IEMG vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 62.7%
- IEMG vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 58.7%
- IEMG vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 54.1%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 71.0%
- VWO vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 69.6%
- VWO vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 67.0%
- VWO vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 61.2%
- VWO vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 57.1%
- VWO vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 46.4%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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