iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Min Vol Factor ETF
$75.52−1.18 (−1.53%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $3.7B
- 1Y return
- +21.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.12%
- Holdings
- 295
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $76.72
- 52W range
The ETF.net EEMV Grade
Score 81 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 92Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 67Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 78Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 75Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on EEMV
AEmerging markets with the volume turned down. Since 2011, EEMV has tracked MSCI's minimum-volatility EM index, holding roughly 300 stocks picked for steadiness rather than size, at 0.25% a year.
The fund seeks to track an index of emerging-market equities selected for minimum-volatility characteristics.
Why people hold it
- At 0.25%, it carries the lowest fee in its emerging-markets factor cohort, undercutting EELV at 0.29% and ECOW at 0.70%, and sitting well below the group median.
- Live since 2011 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund: a long public track record of running the min vol playbook in the world's bumpiest equity markets.
- About 300 emerging-market names, chosen by published index rules rather than a manager's hunch, so what you own is auditable rather than discretionary.
- Stands among the stronger implementations in its emerging-markets factor peer group on our review, largely on cost and issuer staying power.
Worth knowing
- Minimum volatility is a construction rule, not a floor. The index aims for smaller swings; emerging-market currency, country and political risk still ride along.
- Screening for low volatility pulls country and sector weights away from a cap-weighted EM benchmark, so it can move to a different rhythm than the headline index.
- Volume is moderate rather than torrential, so execution habits (limit orders, skipping the opening minutes) matter more here than with a mega-cap index fund.
EEMV Holdings
- Stocks
- 295
- 15%
- 2303.TW
Sectors
- Technology34.0%
- Financials20.7%
- Communication10.6%
- Industrials7.1%
- Health Care5.9%
- Cons. Staples5.8%
- Energy4.6%
- Utilities4.5%
- Consumer Discr.3.6%
- Materials2.6%
- Real Estate0.6%
Geography
- Taiwan23.10%
- China19.41%
- India15.99%
- South Korea15.03%
- Saudi Arabia6.77%
- United Arab Emirates3.52%
- Malaysia2.47%
- Brazil1.87%
- 11.85%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
EEMV 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 | EEMV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +20.8% |
| 1 month | +2.7% |
| 3 months | −0.3% |
| 1 year | +21.7% |
| 3 years | +15.9% |
| 5 years | +6.7% |
| 10 years | +6.1% |
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 | EEMV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +20.8% | |
| 2025 | +13.5% | |
| 2024 | +8.0% | |
| 2023 | +7.8% | |
| 2022 | −13.9% | |
| 2021 | +5.1% | |
| 2020 | +6.9% |
EEMV in the news
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EEMV Dividends
- 2.12%
- $1.62
- $0.65 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.65 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.97 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.72 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $1.40 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.63 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.06 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.47 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.76 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.27 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.82 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.52 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.94 |
EEMV Risk
- 11.4%
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.
- 0.89
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.
- −21.9%
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.
- 0.72
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EEMV Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Factor Index funds
- Median 0.45%
No Emerging Markets Factor Index fund charges less.