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EWZ vs KSA

Both International Emerging.

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWZ unmatched 98.7% 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 EWZ only
46 positions
Shared
0 positions
In KSA only
117 positions

Side by side

EWZ

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF

iShares · International Emerging

60 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$8.64B
TTM yield
4.29%
Top-10 conc.
58.7%
KSA

iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF

iShares · International Emerging

41 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.75%
Net assets
$588.4M
TTM yield
3.04%
Top-10 conc.
58.0%

Sub-score comparison

41
Cost
25
72
Tax efficiency
74
97
Liquidity
47
30
Concentration
31
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Tracking quality
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EWZ sub-score KSA

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

Cost difference

EWZ 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 EWZ vs KSA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWZ

46 total
  • VALE S.A. 11.50%
  • Nu Holdings Ltd. 8.71%
  • Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 8.48%
  • Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 7.28%
  • Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 6.70%
  • B3 S.A - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcao 3.57%
  • Banco Bradesco S.A. 3.33%
  • AMBEV S.A. 3.19%
  • WEG S.A. 3.05%
  • Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - SABESP 2.87%

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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