ETF comparison
IEMG vs VEU
International Emerging vs International Total.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,526 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and VEU would leave roughly 30.5% 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
VEU is 5 bps cheaper than IEMG. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for IEMG.
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 IEMG vs VEU.
Top shared holdings
1,526 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In VEU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 12.49% | 4.43% | 4.43% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 6.80% | 1.99% | 1.99% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.82% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.37% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.82% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.42% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.71% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.74% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 9 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.02% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 10 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.58% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 12 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.61% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in IEMG
1,141 total- Nu Holdings Ltd. 0.31%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.23%
- CREDICORP LTD. 0.16%
- HonPrecision Inc 0.15%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.12%
- TAIWAN UNION TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 0.09%
- ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.08%
- PTT Public Company Limited 0.07%
- MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD. 0.06%
- COMPEQ MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED 0.06%
Only in VEU
2,320 total- ASML Holding NV 1.58%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.91%
- Roche Holding AG 0.76%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.73%
- Novartis AG 0.72%
- Nestle SA 0.64%
- Shell PLC 0.64%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.63%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.60%
- Siemens AG 0.60%
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- IEMG vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 27.0%
- IEMG vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 22.8%
- IEMG vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 20.4%
- IEMG vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 20.3%
- IEMG vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 20.3%
More comparisons with VEU
- VEU vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- VEU vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 24.7%
- VEU vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 88.9%
- VEU vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 88.7%
- VEU vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 88.5%
- VEU vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 71.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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