ETF comparison
DEM vs SDY
Both Dividend.
WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DEM and SDY would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SDY is 28 bps cheaper than DEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for DEM.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with DEM vs SDY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in DEM
516 total- MEDIATEK INC 6.71%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORP 4.04%
- UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP 3.14%
- INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LTD (THE) 2.45%
- SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY 1.89%
- GRUPO FINANCIERO BANORTE SAB DE CV 1.78%
- ORLEN SA 1.65%
- QUANTA COMPUTER INC 1.59%
- FOMENTO ECONOMICO MEXICANO SAB DE CV 1.48%
- POWSZECHNA KASA OSZCZEDNOSCI BANK POLSKI SA 1.48%
Only in SDY
155 total- Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
- Realty Income Corp 2.14%
- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
- AbbVie Inc 1.62%
- QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
- Target Corp 1.55%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
- Edison International 1.45%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.