Summary
iShares MSCI South Korea ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by IShares. Positions inside: 82. The ten largest make up 59% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.59%
- Fund size
- $21.6B
- Positions
- 82
- Dividend yield
- 1.35%
- Running since
- 2000
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $21.6B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $2.82B changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 10%.
- It has been running since 2000.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 59% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 98% of the fund is in one country (South Korea).
- Costs of 0.59% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 51% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -20%
- 3 months
- -14%
- This year
- +53%
- 1 year
- +65%
- 3 years
- +161%
- 5 years
- +85%
- 10 years
- +165%
- Avg. market cap
- $421.5B
- P/E
- 8.0x
- Forward P/E
- 6.5x
- P/S
- 1.4x
- P/B
- 1.5x
- P/FCF
- 8.9x
- EV/EBITDA
- 6.3x
- Dividend yield
- 0.33%
- ROIC
- 16.9%
- ROE
- 41.4%
- Gross margin
- 51.0%
- Operating margin
- 37.4%
- Net margin
- -14.2%
- Payout ratio
- 2.6%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 0.5x
- Beta
- 2.40
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 89% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005930.KS 22%
- 2 00SK hynix Inc. 000660.KS 22%
- 3 00Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. 009150.KS 2.6%
- 4 40SK Square Co., Ltd. 402340.KS 2.6%
- 5 10KB Financial Group Inc. 105560.KS 2.2%
- 6 05Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. 055550.KS 1.7%
- 7 00Hyundai Motor Company 005380.KS 1.5%
- 8 08Hana Financial Group Inc. 086790.KS 1.5%
- 9 00Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. 006400.KS 1.5%
- 10 USD CASH 1.4%
Positions in the fund: 82. The ten largest make up 59% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One countryBy sector
- Industrials 19%
- Energy 1.6%
- Utilities 0.4%
- Other 79%
By country
- South Korea 98%
- United States 0.01%
- Other countries 1.6%
By company size
- Mega cap 45%
- Large cap 45%
- Mid cap 9.8%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Industrials (19%). Largest country: South Korea (98%). Largest size group: Large cap (45%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $59.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,828
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $59.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $2,828.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +10%
- Deepest drop
- -51%
- Yearly volatility
- 58%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 10%. Deepest drop in these years: 51% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 1.35%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $2.04
Over the last 12 months it paid $2.04 per share, which is 1.35% of today's price. The last payment was $2.04 on Dec 16, 2025.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $2.82B
- Shares a day
- 19M
On an average day about $2.82B of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 8.0
- Average Bulios Score
- 69 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 17%
- Fairly valued 8.0%
- Overvalued 75%
On average the companies inside trade for 8.0 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 75% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 89% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 100910.KS Kiwoom KIWOOM KRX100 ETF | South Korea | 0.23% | $25.4M | +63% | Pays out | 89% |
DB DBX8.DE Xtrackers MSCI Korea UCITS ETF 1C | Luxembourg | 0.45% | $109.4M | +80% | Reinvests | 85% |
IQ IQQK.DE iShares MSCI Korea UCITS ETF USD (Dist) | Ireland | 0.65% | $698.2M | +80% | Pays out | 85% |
FL FLKR Franklin FTSE South Korea ETF | United States | 0.09% | $1.33B | +64% | Pays out | 83% |
28 289040.KS Kodex MSCI Korea ESG Universal | South Korea | 0.30% | $12.4M | +73% | Pays out | 82% |
28 289250.KS MiraeAsset TIGER MSCI Korea ESG Universal ETF | South Korea | 0.40% | $15.7M | +79% | Pays out | 82% |