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EEM vs IEFA

International Emerging vs International Developed.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EEM unmatched 99.6% Shared 0.0% IEFA unmatched 99.6%

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 EEM only
1,222 positions
Shared
0 positions
In IEFA only
2,613 positions

Side by side

EEM

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

iShares · International Emerging

60 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.72%
Net assets
$31.07B
TTM yield
1.80%
Top-10 conc.
38.8%
IEFA

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

iShares · International Developed

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$190.21B
TTM yield
3.44%
Top-10 conc.
11.9%

Sub-score comparison

28
Cost
93
77
Tax efficiency
76
100
Liquidity
100
59
Concentration
97
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Tracking quality
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EEM sub-score IEFA

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

Cost difference

IEFA is 65 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $650/yr more in fees for EEM.

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 EEM vs IEFA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EEM

1,222 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 14.26%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.76%
  • SK hynix Inc. 6.64%
  • Tencent Holdings Limited 2.71%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.08%
  • MediaTek Inc. 1.62%
  • DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.17%
  • HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.90%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.85%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.81%

Only in IEFA

2,613 total
  • ASML Holding N.V. 2.50%
  • HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
  • Roche Holding AG 1.20%
  • Novartis AG 1.12%
  • Nestle S.A. 1.00%
  • ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.00%
  • SHELL PLC 1.00%
  • Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 0.95%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
  • BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%

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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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