The comparable numbers on the iShares China Large-Cap ETF (NYSEArca: FXI) are 1.1 and 23.7%.
Investors do not have to pay up to be involved with Taiwanese tech issues as those stocks trade “at around 14 times forward earnings, a common valuation measure, compared with about 16 times for U.S. equivalents,” according to the Journal.
EWT sports a distribution yield of 3.65%. Due a government tax on retained earnings introduced in the late 1990s, Taiwan has one of the more favorable dividend policies in the emerging world.
iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF
Tom Lydon’s clients own shares of Apple and EEM.