IEMG Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG)

IEMG Emerging Markets ETF — analysis

In the emerging markets group, IEMG Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG) has gathered $31.6B. The cost line is 42 bps per year, the benchmark is Index Benchmark, and the fund has traded since 2006.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, IEMG scores 70/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 30% of the fund. That places IEMG in above-average composite quality territory inside the Emerging Markets cohort.

IEMG compounded at 6.9% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 7.0% on the benchmark. The -0.1-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on IEMG is 4.40%, with distributions growing at 3.9% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

IEMG weight stack: top 10 names equal 30%, sector tilt Technology 32%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.60%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as IEMG: VWO, EEM. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.