ETF comparison
EWY vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI South Korea ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWY and SPEM would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPEM is 52 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $520/yr more in fees for EWY.
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 EWY vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in EWY
81 total- SK hynix Inc. 30.85%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 23.88%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 3.42%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 3.08%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 2.43%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 1.40%
- HYUNDAI MOBIS CO.,LTD 1.22%
- DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. 1.21%
- SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD. 1.14%
- SHINHAN FINANCIAL GROUP CO.,LTD 1.03%
Only in SPEM
2,915 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 14.65%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 2.74%
- MediaTek Inc 1.82%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.79%
- Delta Electronics Inc 1.13%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.93%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.83%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.82%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
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More comparisons with EWY
- EWY vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- EWY vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 28.1%
- EWY vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 22.3%
- EWY vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 21.7%
- EWY vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 21.0%
- EWY vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 19.5%
More comparisons with SPEM
- SPEM vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 70.4%
- SPEM vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 69.6%
- SPEM vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 63.1%
- 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%
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
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.