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EMXC vs IEFA

International Emerging vs International Developed.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EMXC unmatched 99.7% 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 EMXC only
642 positions
Shared
0 positions
In IEFA only
2,613 positions

Side by side

EMXC

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF

iShares · International Emerging

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.25%
Net assets
$25.33B
TTM yield
2.10%
Top-10 conc.
44.2%
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

75
Cost
93
76
Tax efficiency
76
100
Liquidity
100
51
Concentration
97
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Tracking quality
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EMXC sub-score IEFA

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

Cost difference

IEFA is 18 bps cheaper than EMXC. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/yr more in fees for EMXC.

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 IEFA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EMXC

642 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 17.94%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 9.75%
  • SK hynix Inc. 8.35%
  • MediaTek Inc. 2.04%
  • DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.47%
  • HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 1.13%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.07%
  • HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.87%
  • RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.83%
  • SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.78%

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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