ETF comparison
EEMvsSPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
883 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EEM and SPEM would leave roughly63.1%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPEM is 65 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $650/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 thecost calculator pre-filled with EEM vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
883 shared in total| # | Holding | In EEM | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 14.26% | 14.65% | 14.26% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.71% | 2.74% | 2.71% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.08% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.62% | 1.82% | 1.62% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.17% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 6 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.90% | 0.93% | 0.90% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.81% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.70% | 0.83% | 0.70% |
| 9 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.50% | 0.82% | 0.50% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.47% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 11 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.43% | 0.50% | 0.43% |
| 12 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 0.41% | 0.45% | 0.41% |
Only in EEM
339 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.7.76%
- SK hynix Inc.6.64%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.0.85%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED0.66%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.62%
- SK Square Co., Ltd.0.60%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY0.50%
- United Microelectronics Corporation0.40%
- ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC0.38%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.0.34%
Only in SPEM
2,033 total- Reliance Industries Ltd0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp0.67%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL0.40%
- Vale SA0.39%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA0.38%
- Infosys Ltd0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd0.28%
- Nanya Technology Corp0.24%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras0.24%
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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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