DVYE vs EMDV

DVYEAiShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF

EMDVCProShares MSCI Emerging Markets Dividend Growers ETF

In short

DVYE Running since 2012, it ranks emerging-market stocks by indicated dividend yield and holds the top 100. That yield-first screen pulls the portfolio toward the value corners of EM rather than the mega-cap tech names, at 0.49% a year.

EMDV Most emerging-market dividend funds hunt the fattest yields. EMDV goes the other way: it tracks an index built around companies with long, unbroken streaks of dividend increases, and holds roughly 60 of them.

Stated mandate

DVYE The Fund seeks to track an index of relatively high dividend-paying equities in emerging markets, providing exposure to dividend-focused emerging-market stocks.

EMDV The Fund seeks to track the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Dividend Masters Index before fees and expenses.

Why people hold it

• DVYE The index ranks EM stocks by indicated annual dividend yield and takes the top 100, with buffer rules that hold existing names in place instead of churning the roster each rebalance.ishares.comspglobal.com
• 0.49% with no waiver propping up the number, below the median fee in its category. Same sticker as EDIV at 0.49%.
• Listed since 2012 and now a billion-dollar-plus fund that tracks its index closely, one of the stronger implementations among EM dividend ETFs.
• Holds the stocks directly rather than using swaps, and sends income out to shareholders quarterly.ishares.com

• EMDV Growth-of-payout screen, not a yield ranking: the MSCI Emerging Markets Dividend Masters Index rewards companies that keep raising dividends.
• The 0.60% fee sits right at the peer-group median, so the streak discipline costs no more than the yield-chasing alternatives.
• Plain vanilla plumbing: a 1940 Act index fund, roughly 60 stocks, pays quarterly. No leverage, no derivatives overlay.
• Same index, same mandate since the 2016 launch, from a ProShares dividend-growers lineup built on this streak methodology.

Worth knowing

• DVYE Sorting by yield steers the book toward payers like financials and energy. Screening, buffering and weighting constraints trim the extremes, they do not erase the tilt.ishares.comspglobal.com
• About 100 stocks means one country or sector can move results more than in a broad cap-weighted EM fund, and payouts move with what those companies declare.
• Cheaper shelf-mates exist: DIEM charges 0.19% for a core dividend-tilt build, a gentler screen than the yield-ranked approach here.

• EMDV A small, thinly traded fund. The bid-ask spread is part of your cost here, and it weighs on our overall read versus bigger rivals.
• Cheaper emerging-market dividend exposure exists in the same peer group: DIEM charges 0.19%.
• Demanding a long increase streak narrows the field to about 60 names, so country and sector mix can look nothing like broad emerging markets.

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