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EWT vs KSA

Both International Emerging.

iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWT unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% KSA unmatched 99.3%

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 EWT only
84 positions
Shared
0 positions
In KSA only
117 positions

Side by side

EWT

iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF

iShares · International Emerging

63 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$12.34B
TTM yield
2.68%
Top-10 conc.
51.5%
KSA

iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

iShares · International Emerging

41 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.75%
Net assets
$588.4M
TTM yield
3.07%
Top-10 conc.
58.0%

Sub-score comparison

41
Cost
25
75
Tax efficiency
74
100
Liquidity
47
41
Concentration
31
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Tracking quality
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EWT sub-score KSA

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

Cost difference

EWT is 16 bps cheaper than KSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for KSA.

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 EWT vs KSA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWT

84 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 19.33%
  • MediaTek Inc. 7.55%
  • DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 5.64%
  • HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 4.09%
  • ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 2.86%
  • ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. 2.75%
  • UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. 2.72%
  • United Microelectronics Corporation 2.25%
  • ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 2.20%
  • YAGEO CORPORATION 2.15%

Only in KSA

117 total
  • AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC 13.87%
  • Saudi Arabian Oil Company 11.44%
  • The Saudi National Bank SJSC 8.15%
  • Saudi Telecom Company SJSC 5.35%
  • Saudi Arabian Mining Company SJSC 4.60%
  • Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SJSC 3.29%
  • Riyad Bank SJSC 3.12%
  • ALINMA BANK SJSC 2.78%
  • Saudi Awwal Bank SJSC 2.69%
  • ACWA POWER Company SJSC 2.67%

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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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