Compare VGE · BEMG · IEM
VGE, BEMG and IEM hold at least 5,244 companies between them. 704 are in every one of them, and BEMG and IEM are the most alike: 80.2% of each is the same companies.
We can see through 97.3% of these funds to individual companies. The rest is cash, bonds, or a fund whose holdings we cannot see, so every figure here is a floor.
Return, last year
Price only, last year, each fund starting at 100. Switch to total return to add distributions.
Side by side
| VGE | BEMG | IEM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund | Vanguard | BetaShares | iShares |
| Asset class | International shares | International shares | International shares |
| Fee a year | 0.48% | -- | 0.69% |
| Fund size | $1.7b | $188.8m | $1.5b |
| Holdings | 6347 | 1165 | 1172 |
| 1Y price return | +3.3% | +0.3%only priced since 2026-09-24 | +17.8% |
| Distribution yield | 1.43% | Not yet | 1.38% |
| Look-through coverage | 99.4% | 93.6% | 98.8% |
Holdings, fund by fund
- Information Technology
- Financials
- Consumer Discretionary
- Materials
- Communication Services
- Everything else
- Other
- Cash
- 2330Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co LIn all 3VGE15.4%BEMG15.6%IEM15.4%
- 005930Samsung Electronics Co LtdIn 2 of 3VGEnot heldBEMG7.5%IEM7.6%
- 000660SK HYNIX INCIn 2 of 3VGEnot heldBEMG5.8%IEM5.8%
- 700Tencent Holdings LtdIn all 3VGE3.0%BEMG2.8%IEM2.7%
- 9988ALIBABA GROUP HOLDINGIn all 3VGE2.3%BEMG1.9%IEM1.8%
- 2454MEDIATEK INCIn all 3VGE1.5%BEMG1.9%IEM1.8%
- 005935SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS PREFIn 2 of 3VGEnot heldBEMG1.0%IEM1.0%
- 2308DELTA ELECTRONICSIn all 3VGE0.9%BEMG0.9%IEM0.9%
- 939CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORP HIn all 3VGE0.9%BEMG0.8%IEM0.8%
- 2317HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRYIn all 3VGE0.8%BEMG0.8%IEM0.8%
What each fund is in
Each figure is the company's weight inside that fund, so the funds are read against each other and nothing is added up. A company listed on two exchanges counts once in a fund. Each bar in the mix is one fund as 100% of itself. The striped colours are money we cannot see inside a company (cash, bonds, a fund we cannot open). Cash, bonds and funds we cannot open that come to under 1% of a bar are in Everything else.
What VGE already gives you
- VGE and BEMG share 933 companies67.1%A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
- VGE and IEM share 798 companies61.4%A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
- BEMG and IEM share 820 companies80.2%BEMG and IEM hold 80% the same companies.A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
Overlap is the smaller weight in every company both funds hold: the share of each fund the other already covers. Grouped by company, so a listing on two exchanges is one holding.
What each fund changed
Reading the holdings history…
Holdings are published monthly, so this is the last publication, not this week. A re-weight counts once it moves 0.25 points of the fund or more — below that, weights are just prices moving.