Summary
American Century Emerging Markets Investor Class is a mutual fund run by American Century. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day. Positions inside: 95. The ten largest make up 43% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 1.26%
- Fund size
- $1.90B
- Positions
- 95
- Dividend yield
- 0.99%
- Running since
- 1997
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $1.90B under management.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 6.5%.
- It has been running since 1997.
What to watch
- High costs: 1.26% a year.
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 48% 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
- -10.0%
- 3 months
- -4.6%
- This year
- +16%
- 1 year
- +17%
- 3 years
- +89%
- 5 years
- +17%
- 10 years
- +89%
- Avg. market cap
- $579.9B
- P/E
- 13.1x
- Forward P/E
- 11.9x
- P/S
- 3.3x
- P/B
- 2.8x
- P/FCF
- 15.3x
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.2x
- Dividend yield
- 0.96%
- ROIC
- 19.7%
- ROE
- 33.8%
- Gross margin
- 53.5%
- Operating margin
- 39.4%
- Net margin
- -12.1%
- Payout ratio
- 12.6%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- -0.2x
- Beta
- 1.10
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 80% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 23Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 2330.TW 15%
- 2 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005930.KS 8.8%
- 3 00SK hynix Inc. 000660.KS 4.4%
- 4 07Tencent Holdings Limited 0700.HK 2.8%
- 5 09China Construction Bank Corporation 0939.HK 2.2%
- 6 40SK Square Co., Ltd. 402340.KS 2.1%
- 7 BAAlibaba BABA 2.0%
- 8 US DOLLARS 1.9%
- 9 13Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited 1398.HK 1.6%
- 10 24MediaTek Inc. 2454.TW 1.6%
Positions in the fund: 95. The ten largest make up 43% of it.
Composition as of Oct 24, 2026.
Where is it spread?
Spread outBy country
- China 19%
- India 10.0%
- Brazil 3.7%
- Mexico 2.2%
- Other countries 65%
By company size
- Mega cap 40%
- Large cap 49%
- Mid cap 11%
- Small cap 0.2%
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. Counted from the companies that make up 93% of the fund.
Largest country: China (19%). Largest size group: Large cap (49%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- Yearly costs
- 1.26%
- A year from $10,000
- $126
- Over 20 years
- $5,692
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $126 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 $5,692.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +6.5%
- Deepest drop
- -48%
- Yearly volatility
- 27%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 6.5%. Deepest drop in these years: 48% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 0.99%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $0.17
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.17 per share, which is 0.99% of today's price. The last payment was $0.17 on Dec 16, 2025.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 13.1
- Average Bulios Score
- 73 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 25%
- Fairly valued 8.0%
- Overvalued 67%
On average the companies inside trade for 13.1 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 67% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 80% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Can I buy it as an ETF?
A mutual fund is bought from the fund company. These ETFs hold much of the same and trade on an exchange, so an ordinary broker carries them.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FF FFEM Fidelity Covington Trust - Fidelity Fundamental Emerging Markets ETF | United States | 0.60% | $67.4M | +17% | Pays out | 48% |
EM EMCS Xtrackers MSCI Emerging Markets Climate Selection ETF | United States | 0.15% | $1.03B | +20% | Pays out | 46% |
PE PEMX Putnam Emerging Markets Ex-China ETF | United States | 0.71% | $19.9M | +20% | Pays out | 44% |
AI AIA iShares Asia 50 ETF | United States | 0.50% | $4.48B | +30% | Pays out | 44% |
LC LCUA.DE Amundi MSCI EM Asia ESG Broad Transition UCITS ETF Acc | Luxembourg | 0.25% | $383.2M | +19% | - | 44% |
SY SYGEMF.JO Sygnia Itrix MSCI Emerging Markets 50 ETF Units ZAR | South Africa | 0.48% | - | +17% | Reinvests | 44% |