ETF comparison
FRDM vs IXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FRDM and IXUS 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.
Holdings data for FRDM covers 13.2% of fund weight. The remainder lacks matchable identifiers in the N-PORT filing.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IXUS is 42 bps cheaper than FRDM. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/yr more in fees for FRDM.
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 FRDM vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in FRDM
16 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 8.52%
- United Microelectronics Corp 1.43%
- Gold Fields Ltd 0.52%
- Banco Bradesco SA 0.51%
- First American Government Obligations Fund 0.43%
- Grupo Mexico SAB de CV 0.42%
- Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV 0.38%
- Cia Cervecerias Unidas SA 0.19%
- Cia Sud Americana de Vapores SA 0.19%
- ARCA CONTINENTAL SAB DE CV 0.14%
Only in IXUS
4,489 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
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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/.
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