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EEM vs VXUS

International Emerging vs International Total.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
26.8 %

1,170 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EEM and VXUS would leave roughly 26.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EEM unmatched 72.8% Shared 26.8% VXUS unmatched 70.6%

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
52 positions
Shared
1,170 positions
In VXUS only
7,566 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%
VXUS

Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Total

93 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.050%
Net assets
$649.29B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
2.41%
Top-10 conc.
13.2%

Sub-score comparison

28
Cost
95
77
Tax efficiency
78
100
Liquidity
100
59
Concentration
95
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Tracking quality
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EEM sub-score VXUS

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

Cost difference

VXUS is 67 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $670/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 VXUS.

Top shared holdings

1,170 shared in total
# Holding In EEM In VXUS Overlap
1 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 14.26% 4.10% 4.10%
2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.76% 1.83% 1.83%
3 SK hynix Inc. 6.64% 1.43% 1.43%
4 Tencent Holdings Limited 2.71% 0.87% 0.87%
5 Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.08% 0.63% 0.63%
6 MediaTek Inc. 1.62% 0.36% 0.36%
7 CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.81% 0.24% 0.24%
8 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.85% 0.23% 0.23%
9 DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.17% 0.22% 0.22%
10 HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.90% 0.21% 0.21%
11 RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.66% 0.21% 0.21%
12 HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.70% 0.20% 0.20%

Only in EEM

52 total
  • Nu Holdings Ltd. 0.35%
  • Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.26%
  • CREDICORP LTD. 0.18%
  • HonPrecision Inc 0.17%
  • SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.14%
  • ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.09%
  • PTT Public Company Limited 0.09%
  • H World Group Limited 0.07%
  • GULF DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.07%
  • CP All Public Company Limited 0.06%

Only in VXUS

7,566 total
  • ASML Holding NV 1.45%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
  • Roche Holding AG 0.70%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
  • Novartis AG 0.66%
  • Nestle SA 0.59%
  • Shell PLC 0.58%
  • AstraZeneca PLC 0.58%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.55%
  • Siemens AG 0.55%

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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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