ETF comparison
DFAE vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
2,186 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAE and SPEM would leave roughly 60.4% 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
SPEM is 22 bps cheaper than DFAE. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for DFAE.
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 SPEM.
Top shared holdings
2,186 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAE | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 13.19% | 14.65% | 13.19% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.57% | 2.74% | 2.57% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.20% | 1.79% | 1.20% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.97% | 1.82% | 0.97% |
| 5 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% | 0.93% | 0.79% |
| 6 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.77% | 0.81% | 0.77% |
| 7 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.62% | 1.13% | 0.62% |
| 8 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.46% | 0.50% | 0.46% |
| 9 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.45% | 0.71% | 0.45% |
| 10 | BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | 0.44% | 0.53% | 0.44% |
| 11 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.39% | 0.46% | 0.39% |
| 12 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.41% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in DFAE
4,082 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 5.17%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.54%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.67%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.40%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.39%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.35%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.33%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.31%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.30%
- Hana Financial Group Inc. 0.26%
Only in SPEM
729 total- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.40%
- Bajaj Finance Ltd 0.30%
- Baidu Inc 0.27%
- State Bank of India 0.22%
- Itausa SA 0.15%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.15%
- Hon Precision Inc 0.12%
- PTT PCL 0.12%
- Kasikornbank PCL 0.11%
- Shriram Finance Ltd 0.11%
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- DFAE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 35.2%
- DFAE vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 28.6%
More comparisons with SPEM
- SPEM vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 53.8%
- SPEM vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 50.1%
- SPEM vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 43.5%
- SPEM vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 42.9%
- SPEM vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 41.4%
- SPEM vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 40.3%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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