ETF comparison
FNDE vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
277 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FNDE and SPEM would leave roughly 40.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPEM is 32 bps cheaper than FNDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/yr more in fees for FNDE.
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 FNDE vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
277 shared in total| # | Holding | In FNDE | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.91% | 11.96% | 5.91% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 3.11% | 2.57% | 2.57% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.70% | 3.48% | 1.70% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 2.35% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 5 | MediaTek Inc | 0.80% | 0.82% | 0.80% |
| 6 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 2.80% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 7 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 1.16% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 8 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.56% | 0.93% | 0.56% |
| 9 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.50% | 0.84% | 0.50% |
| 10 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 1.34% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 11 | Bank of China Ltd | 1.03% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 12 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 0.84% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
Only in FNDE
62 total- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 2.17%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 2.01%
- JD.com Inc 1.06%
- PTT PCL 0.89%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.88%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.84%
- Banco Bradesco SA 0.61%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.54%
- Infosys Ltd 0.45%
- State Bank of India 0.41%
Only in SPEM
2,668 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.99%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- Infosys Ltd 0.48%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.44%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.43%
- Naspers Ltd 0.42%
- JD.com Inc 0.37%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.36%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.36%
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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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