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AAXJ vs KSA

Both International Emerging.

iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

AAXJ unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% KSA unmatched 99.3%

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 AAXJ only
940 positions
Shared
0 positions
In KSA only
117 positions

Side by side

AAXJ

iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF

iShares · International Emerging

55 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.72%
Net assets
$3.96B
TTM yield
1.45%
Top-10 conc.
42.2%
KSA

iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

iShares · International Emerging

41 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.75%
Net assets
$588.4M
TTM yield
3.07%
Top-10 conc.
58.0%

Sub-score comparison

28
Cost
25
78
Tax efficiency
74
83
Liquidity
47
54
Concentration
31
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Tracking quality
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AAXJ sub-score KSA

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

Cost difference

AAXJ is 3 bps cheaper than KSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 AAXJ vs KSA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in AAXJ

940 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 17.21%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.68%
  • SK hynix Inc. 5.93%
  • Tencent Holdings Limited 3.55%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.41%
  • MediaTek Inc. 1.46%
  • DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.12%
  • AIA Group Limited 0.99%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.95%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.94%

Only in KSA

117 total
  • AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC 13.87%
  • Saudi Arabian Oil Company 11.44%
  • The Saudi National Bank SJSC 8.15%
  • Saudi Telecom Company SJSC 5.35%
  • Saudi Arabian Mining Company SJSC 4.60%
  • Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SJSC 3.29%
  • Riyad Bank SJSC 3.12%
  • ALINMA BANK SJSC 2.78%
  • Saudi Awwal Bank SJSC 2.69%
  • ACWA POWER Company SJSC 2.67%

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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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