iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
$67.86−1.25 (−1.80%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.72%
- Fund size
- $32.1B
- 1Y return
- +32.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.61%
- Holdings
- 1185
- Volume · 30D
- 24.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $69.05
- 52W range
The ETF.net EEM Grade
Score 60 of 100 sits in the B 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.DScore 27Category 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.CScore 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 75Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 56Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 73Category rank
Our read on EEM
BThe 2003 original. iShares' first big emerging-markets fund is still one of the most actively traded ways to own large- and mid-cap stocks across developing economies, and it carries a legacy price tag to match.
The fund seeks to track an index representing large- and mid-capitalization equities from emerging-market countries.
Why people hold it
- Launched in 2003, one of the earliest broad emerging-markets ETFs, and still a very actively traded fund with tens of billions in assets, which supports tight pricing for size.
- Tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (Net) very closely, with among the tightest measured index-tracking in its peer group.
- One ticket for large- and mid-cap companies across emerging-market countries, in a plain 1940 Act fund wrapper rather than a trust or partnership.
Worth knowing
- The fee is the trade-off: 0.72% a year, above the peer-group median of 0.66%, while the newer core sibling IEMG charges 0.09% for a similar MSCI emerging-markets mandate.
- Broad emerging-market equity brings currency swings and single-country politics along with stock risk; measured volatility sits at the higher end of this cohort.
- Income arrives once or twice a year, not quarterly or monthly.
EEM Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,185
- 38%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology42.3%
- Financials19.3%
- Consumer Discr.8.2%
- Industrials6.3%
- Materials6.2%
- Communication6.1%
- Energy3.6%
- Health Care2.9%
- Cons. Staples2.6%
- Utilities1.8%
- Real Estate1.0%
Geography
- Taiwan (Province of China)27.74%
- Korea (the Republic of)20.87%
- China17.95%
- India10.98%
- Brazil4.06%
- South Africa2.67%
- Saudi Arabia2.39%
- Mexico1.64%
- 11.70%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
EEM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
EEM$13,225
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 | EEM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +26.9% |
| 1 month | +2.9% |
| 3 months | −3.0% |
| 1 year | +32.2% |
| 3 years | +24.5% |
| 5 years | +8.8% |
| 10 years | +8.5% |
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 | EEM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +26.9% | |
| 2025 | +34.0% | |
| 2024 | +6.5% | |
| 2023 | +9.0% | |
| 2022 | −20.6% | |
| 2021 | −3.6% | |
| 2020 | +17.0% |
EEM in the news
EEM Dividends
- 1.61%
- $1.11
- $0.35 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.76 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.45 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.73 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.75 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.31 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.58 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.36 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.03 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.71 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.24 |
EEM Risk
- 15.5%
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.
- 1.10
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.
- −33.8%
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.
- 1.03
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EEM Cost
0.72%
EEM0.72%
- The middle half of MSCI Emerging Markets Core funds
- Median 0.66%
3 of the 5 MSCI Emerging Markets Core funds charge less.