BNY Mellon Emerging Markets Equity ETF
$30.94−0.52 (−1.65%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.11%
- Fund size
- $112M
- 1Y return
- +30.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.84%
- Holdings
- 1790
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $31.22
- 52W range
The ETF.net BKEM Grade
Score 75 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 95Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 23Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 48Category rank
Our read on BKEM
AThe whole emerging world, priced like an afterthought. BNY Mellon charges 0.11% to hold well over a thousand large- and mid-cap stocks across developing markets. Broad, cheap, and very quiet.
The fund is designed to follow the performance of an emerging-markets large- and mid-cap equity index.
Why people hold it
- 0.11% a year puts it near the bottom of the emerging-markets fee shelf, well under what the typical fund in the category charges.
- Roughly 1,800 holdings, so you own the mid-cap tail of emerging markets, not just the handful of mega-caps that dominate the better-known indexes.
- Buys the full emerging-markets basket rather than carving out China the way top-rated peers XCEM and VEXC do. One allocation decision you do not have to make.
- Plain indexing, run the same way since the 2020 launch: it hews closely to its Solactive benchmark instead of drifting off-mandate.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded. Spreads can widen, so order size and timing matter more here than with the category's household names.
- A small fund next to the emerging-markets giants, which is worth knowing if scale and deep secondary-market liquidity are on your checklist.
- Emerging-markets equity carries currency and single-country political swings; 1,800 names spread that around but do not erase it. Distributions come quarterly.
BKEM Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,790
- 38%
- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC
Sectors
- Technology40.8%
- Financials18.8%
- Consumer Discr.8.4%
- Industrials7.7%
- Materials6.0%
- Communication6.0%
- Energy3.5%
- Health Care3.0%
- Cons. Staples2.6%
- Utilities2.0%
- Real Estate1.1%
Geography
- Taiwan27.02%
- South Korea19.94%
- China19.37%
- India11.68%
- Brazil4.06%
- South Africa2.60%
- Saudi Arabia2.45%
- United Arab Emirates1.85%
- 11.03%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
BKEM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | BKEM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +27.0% |
| 1 month | +2.5% |
| 3 months | −3.8% |
| 1 year | +30.5% |
| 3 years | +23.6% |
| 5 years | +8.9% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | BKEM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +27.0% | |
| 2025 | +30.5% | |
| 2024 | +7.5% | |
| 2023 | +8.7% | |
| 2022 | −19.5% | |
| 2021 | −3.9% | |
| 2020 | +47.5% |
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BKEM Dividends
- 1.84%
- $0.58
- $0.28 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 4, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 5, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.16 |
BKEM Risk
- 15.6%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.07
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −32.4%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.12
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BKEM Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Stocks funds
- Median 0.56%
1 of the 21 Emerging Markets Stocks funds charge less.