iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF
$118.43−1.74 (−1.45%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $922M
- 1Y return
- +32.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.28%
- Holdings
- 901
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $119.79
- 52W range
The ETF.net EEMA Grade
Score 70 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.BScore 55Category 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 55Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 77Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 53Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on EEMA
AEmerging markets, minus the detour. EEMA owns the Asian engine room (China, Taiwan, Korea, India) and skips Latin America and EMEA entirely, spread across roughly 900 large- and mid-cap names with caps on the giants.
The fund seeks to track an index of large- and mid-cap equities from emerging Asian countries, providing diversified exposure to Asian emerging-market equities.
Why people hold it
- Pure emerging Asia: the index covers only EM Asian countries, so Taiwan, China, Korea and India carry the fund without Brazil or Saudi Arabia riding along.ishares.com
- The MSCI EM Asia Custom Capped Index limits any single issuer to 25% and all 5%-plus names to 25% combined, so one mega-cap chipmaker cannot quietly become the whole fund.mutualfunds.com
- Running since 2012 and holding roughly 900 large- and mid-cap stocks, it hews closely to the mandate on the tin and sits in the upper half of its emerging-markets peer group.
Worth knowing
- The 0.49% fee lands at the median for emerging-markets funds, while broad EM trackers like VEXC (0.07%) and BKEM (0.11%) charge a fraction of that.
- Asia-only means China and Taiwan do the heavy lifting. Peers such as XCEM and VEXC strip China out; this one leans in.
- Mid-sized and moderately traded rather than a mega-fund, so spreads can run wider than on the largest EM ETFs. It also distributes infrequently, not monthly.
EEMA Holdings
- Stocks
- 901
- 39%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology44.3%
- Financials16.3%
- Consumer Discr.9.5%
- Industrials7.6%
- Communication6.5%
- Materials4.5%
- Health Care3.7%
- Energy2.8%
- Cons. Staples2.5%
- Utilities1.5%
- Real Estate0.8%
Geography
- Taiwan31.88%
- China26.89%
- South Korea19.84%
- India14.80%
- Hong Kong1.70%
- Thailand1.35%
- Malaysia1.31%
- Indonesia0.69%
- 1.53%
Developed 3% · Emerging 97%
EEMA 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 | EEMA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +28.2% |
| 1 month | +3.6% |
| 3 months | −1.1% |
| 1 year | +32.9% |
| 3 years | +25.6% |
| 5 years | +9.0% |
| 10 years | +9.5% |
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 | EEMA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +28.2% | |
| 2025 | +33.3% | |
| 2024 | +10.2% | |
| 2023 | +6.8% | |
| 2022 | −21.5% | |
| 2021 | −4.2% | |
| 2020 | +25.2% |
EEMA in the news
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EEMA Dividends
- 1.28%
- $1.54
- $0.34 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.20 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $1.00 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.17 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.31 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.79 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.34 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $1.68 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.12 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.77 |
EEMA Risk
- 16.5%
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.
- −37.0%
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.
- 1.07
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EEMA Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Stocks funds
- Median 0.56%
8 of the 21 Emerging Markets Stocks funds charge less.