ETF comparison
FRDM vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FRDM and VWO would leave roughly 0.2% 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
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Cost difference
VWO is 43 bps cheaper than FRDM. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In FRDM | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Microelectronics Corp | 1.43% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | Grupo Carso SAB de CV | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | Grupo Financiero Inbursa SAB de CV | 0.07% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 8.52% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Banco Bradesco SA | 0.51% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in FRDM
11 total- Gold Fields Ltd 0.52%
- 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%
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico SAB de CV 0.14%
- Industrias Penoles SAB de CV 0.09%
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste SAB de CV 0.07%
Only in VWO
4,975 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
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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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