ETF comparison
ESGE vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
213 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and SPEM would leave roughly 43.5% 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 ESGE. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/yr more in fees for ESGE.
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 ESGE vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
213 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 14.90% | 14.65% | 14.65% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.64% | 2.74% | 2.64% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.96% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.50% | 1.82% | 1.50% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.43% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 6 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.86% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 1.21% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.63% | 0.93% | 0.63% |
| 9 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.56% | 0.82% | 0.56% |
| 10 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 0.80% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 11 | NETEASE, INC. | 0.43% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 12 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.41% | 0.50% | 0.41% |
Only in ESGE
75 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 8.54%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.62%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.23%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.98%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.81%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.80%
- SK Inc. 0.73%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.66%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.54%
- INFOSYS LIMITED 0.51%
Only in SPEM
2,702 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- Bharti Airtel Ltd 0.53%
- Unimicron Technology Corp 0.50%
- Bank of China Ltd 0.42%
- Yageo Corp 0.41%
- Elite Material Co Ltd 0.40%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.40%
- Vale SA 0.39%
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- ESGE vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 26.6%
- ESGE vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 21.7%
- ESGE vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 19.1%
More comparisons with SPEM
- 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%
- SPEM vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 28.0%
- SPEM vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 22.0%
- SPEM vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 21.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
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/methodology/.
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