ETF comparison
EEM vs FNDE
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
291 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EEM and FNDE would leave roughly 42.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FNDE is 33 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $330/yr more in fees for EEM.
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 EEM vs FNDE.
Top shared holdings
291 shared in total| # | Holding | In EEM | In FNDE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 13.14% | 5.91% | 5.91% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.66% | 3.11% | 2.66% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.61% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
| 4 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.84% | 2.35% | 0.84% |
| 5 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.82% | 2.80% | 0.82% |
| 6 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.80% | 0.84% | 0.80% |
| 7 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.80% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 8 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.75% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 9 | VALE S.A. | 0.53% | 3.43% | 0.53% |
| 10 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.50% | 1.34% | 0.50% |
| 11 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.93% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 12 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.46% | 1.16% | 0.46% |
Only in EEM
916 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.07%
- SK hynix Inc. 3.45%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.70%
- ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC 0.55%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.53%
- Nu Holdings Ltd 0.44%
- NASPERS LIMITED 0.37%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.36%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.34%
- KIA CORPORATION 0.29%
Only in FNDE
48 total- JD.com Inc 1.06%
- JBS NV 0.39%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.29%
- Metalurgica Gerdau SA 0.28%
- BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd 0.25%
- AUO Corp 0.21%
- Bangkok Bank PCL 0.21%
- Grupo Televisa SAB 0.19%
- Banpu PCL 0.18%
- WPG Holdings Ltd 0.18%
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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/.
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