ETF comparison
ESGE vs EWY
Both International Emerging.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Holdings overlap
35 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and EWY would leave roughly 18.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ESGE is 34 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $340/yr more in fees for EWY.
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 ESGE vs EWY.
Top shared holdings
35 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In EWY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 6.28% | 29.30% | 6.28% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 3.72% | 19.91% | 3.72% |
| 3 | KB Financial Group Inc | 0.59% | 2.08% | 0.59% |
| 4 | Woori Financial Group Inc | 0.57% | 0.83% | 0.57% |
| 5 | BlackRock Funds III | 0.57% | 2.15% | 0.57% |
| 6 | SK Square Co Ltd | 0.54% | 2.25% | 0.54% |
| 7 | SK Inc | 0.53% | 0.57% | 0.53% |
| 8 | Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd | 0.51% | 1.46% | 0.51% |
| 9 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.50% | 1.24% | 0.50% |
| 10 | Samsung C&T Corp | 0.43% | 1.13% | 0.43% |
| 11 | NAVER Corp | 0.31% | 1.27% | 0.31% |
| 12 | Samsung SDI Co Ltd | 0.30% | 1.06% | 0.30% |
Only in ESGE
261 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 13.61%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.56%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.51%
- China Construction Bank Corp 1.23%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 1.13%
- Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd 1.13%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.92%
- Al Rajhi Bank 0.88%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.84%
- Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd 0.77%
Only in EWY
49 total- Hyundai Motor Co 3.22%
- Kia Corp 1.73%
- Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd 1.46%
- Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd 1.12%
- Mirae Asset Securities Co Ltd 0.81%
- HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd 0.74%
- Ecopro Co Ltd 0.72%
- Samsung Biologics Co Ltd 0.71%
- Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd 0.71%
- HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co Ltd 0.70%
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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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