ETF comparison
IEMG vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,141 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and VWO would leave roughly 70.2% 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
VWO is 3 bps cheaper than IEMG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
2,141 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 12.49% | 15.56% | 12.49% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.37% | 3.31% | 2.37% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.82% | 2.41% | 1.82% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.42% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.02% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 6 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% | 0.81% | 0.79% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.71% | 0.90% | 0.71% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.61% | 0.78% | 0.61% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.58% | 0.80% | 0.58% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.48% | 0.69% | 0.48% |
| 11 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.44% | 0.49% | 0.44% |
| 12 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.42% | 0.55% | 0.42% |
Only in IEMG
526 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.80%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.82%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.74%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.54%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.53%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.44%
- Nu Holdings Ltd. 0.31%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.25%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.23%
- DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. 0.22%
Only in VWO
2,839 total- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.20%
- PTT PCL 0.12%
- Kasikornbank PCL 0.09%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.09%
- Banca Transilvania SA 0.07%
- Gulf Development PCL 0.07%
- H World Group Ltd 0.07%
- Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd 0.07%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.07%
- SCB X PCL 0.06%
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- IEMG vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 61.3%
- IEMG vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 57.7%
- IEMG vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 52.4%
- IEMG vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 39.3%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 69.6%
- VWO vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 68.7%
- VWO vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 67.0%
- VWO vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 61.2%
- VWO vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 56.6%
- VWO vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 46.4%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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