KB Financial Group, Inc. vs Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? KB Financial Group, Inc. trades at $117.53 (market cap $41.21B), while Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund ETF trades at $60.33. The key difference: KB Financial Group, Inc. pays a 2.67% dividend while Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| KB | VWO | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $41.21B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $124.01 | $61.24 |
52-Week Low | $77.50 | $51.20 |
Dividend Yield | 2.67% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
KB Financial is the parent company of KB Kookmin Bank, Korea's largest commercial bank, with a 13.1% share of loans as of 2021. Its predecessor banks were established in the 1960s as government policy banks and privatized in the 1990s. Its credit card subsidiary KB Kookmin Card is the number-three player behind Shinhan Card and Samsung Card. KB has in recent years expanded its nonbank business by buying LIG Insurance and Hyundai Securities, making KB a top-five player in nonlife insurance and in securities, and most recently by buying Prudential Life Insurance Korea. It also has KB Capital, which provides leasing and installment finance.
Read more on KB →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap China A Inclusion Index. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the index in terms of key characteristics.
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