ETF comparison
EMXC vs ESGE
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF
Holdings overlap
201 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMXC and ESGE would leave roughly 57.7% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.25% vs 0.25%).
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 EMXC vs ESGE.
Top shared holdings
201 shared in total| # | Holding | In EMXC | In ESGE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 17.94% | 14.90% | 14.90% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 9.75% | 8.54% | 8.54% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 8.35% | 4.62% | 4.62% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 2.04% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.47% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 6 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.07% | 1.23% | 1.07% |
| 7 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.87% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 8 | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 0.78% | 0.98% | 0.78% |
| 9 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.75% | 0.81% | 0.75% |
| 10 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.83% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 11 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 1.13% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 12 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.62% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
Only in EMXC
441 total- VALE S.A. 0.58%
- BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED 0.49%
- ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. 0.48%
- Saudi Arabian Oil Company 0.44%
- UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. 0.43%
- Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. 0.38%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.38%
- YAGEO CORPORATION 0.38%
- The Saudi National Bank SJSC 0.31%
- OTP Bank Nyrt. 0.30%
Only in ESGE
87 total- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.64%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.96%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 1.21%
- Lenovo Group Limited 0.90%
- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. 0.63%
- BYD COMPANY LIMITED 0.49%
- XIAOMI CORPORATION 0.49%
- NETEASE, INC. 0.43%
- INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 0.41%
- MEITUAN 0.36%
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- EMXC vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 56.6%
- EMXC vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 50.1%
- EMXC vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 42.3%
- EMXC vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 34.2%
- EMXC vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 33.3%
- EMXC vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 32.8%
More comparisons with ESGE
- ESGE vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 50.6%
- ESGE vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 50.0%
- ESGE vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 46.4%
- ESGE vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 43.5%
- ESGE vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 34.8%
- ESGE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 34.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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