ETF comparison
EMXC vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
454 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMXC and SPEM would leave roughly 50.1% 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 18 bps cheaper than EMXC. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/yr more in fees for EMXC.
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 EMXC vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
454 shared in total| # | Holding | In EMXC | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 17.94% | 14.65% | 14.65% |
| 2 | MediaTek Inc. | 2.04% | 1.82% | 1.82% |
| 3 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.47% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 4 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 1.13% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 5 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.87% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 6 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.62% | 0.82% | 0.62% |
| 7 | BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | 0.49% | 0.53% | 0.49% |
| 8 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 0.52% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 9 | UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 0.43% | 0.50% | 0.43% |
| 10 | ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 0.48% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 11 | YAGEO CORPORATION | 0.38% | 0.41% | 0.38% |
| 12 | NASPERS LIMITED | 0.40% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
Only in EMXC
188 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 9.75%
- SK hynix Inc. 8.35%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.07%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.83%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.78%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.75%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.63%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.50%
- ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC 0.47%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.42%
Only in SPEM
2,461 total- Tencent Holdings Ltd 2.74%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.79%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.50%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.46%
- NetEase Inc 0.42%
- Bank of China Ltd 0.42%
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- EMXC vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 32.8%
- EMXC vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 28.1%
- EMXC vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 22.0%
More comparisons with SPEM
- SPEM vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 43.5%
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- SPEM vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 41.4%
- SPEM vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 40.3%
- SPEM vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 28.0%
- SPEM vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 22.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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