The dividend-focused emerging market stocks are also a little more expensive than broad emerging market ETFs. EMHD has a 0.85% expense ratio and EDIV has a 0.59% expense ratio. In comparison, the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: VWO), which tracks the FTSE Emerging Markets Index, has a 0.15% expense ratio. VWO provides a lower 3.33% dividend yield.
Dividend emerging market plays, though, have been lagging behind broad emerging markets. EMHD is down 2.2% and EDIV is down 2.0% year-to-date, whereas VWO is down 0.2% so far this year.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.