ETF comparison
EEM vs SPEM
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 roughly 63.1% 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 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 the cost 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 LIMITED 0.66%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.62%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.60%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.50%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.40%
- ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC 0.38%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.34%
Only in SPEM
2,032 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.40%
- Vale SA 0.39%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.38%
- Infosys Ltd 0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.28%
- Nanya Technology Corp 0.24%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.24%
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- EEM vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 41.5%
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- EEM vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 26.8%
- EEM vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 26.1%
More comparisons with SPEM
- SPEM vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 61.3%
- SPEM vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 60.4%
- 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%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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