ETF comparison
DFAE vs FNDE
Both International Emerging.
Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
278 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAE and FNDE would leave roughly 35.2% 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
DFAE is 10 bps cheaper than FNDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for FNDE.
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 DFAE vs FNDE.
Top shared holdings
278 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAE | In FNDE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 13.19% | 6.48% | 6.48% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.57% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.20% | 2.72% | 1.20% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.97% | 1.80% | 0.97% |
| 5 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% | 3.31% | 0.79% |
| 6 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.77% | 2.38% | 0.77% |
| 7 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.62% | 0.77% | 0.62% |
| 8 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.46% | 1.28% | 0.46% |
| 9 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.43% | 1.11% | 0.43% |
| 10 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.40% | 0.80% | 0.40% |
| 11 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.39% | 0.40% | 0.39% |
| 12 | BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.35% | 1.19% | 0.35% |
Only in DFAE
5,990 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 5.17%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.54%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.67%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.45%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.39%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.35%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.33%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.31%
- VALE S.A. 0.29%
- ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 0.27%
Only in FNDE
76 total- JD.com Inc 1.38%
- PTT PCL 0.82%
- Baidu Inc 0.60%
- Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd 0.31%
- Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp 0.28%
- Kasikornbank PCL 0.28%
- Metalurgica Gerdau SA 0.27%
- BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd 0.26%
- Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp 0.25%
- COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co Ltd 0.22%
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More comparisons with FNDE
- FNDE vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 35.0%
- FNDE vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 34.2%
- FNDE vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 34.1%
- FNDE vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 31.5%
- FNDE vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 25.2%
- FNDE vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 24.3%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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