ETF comparison
FXI vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares China Large-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FXI and SPEM would leave roughly 12.2% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPEM is 66 bps cheaper than FXI. On a $100,000 position that's about $660/yr more in fees for FXI.
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 FXI vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In FXI | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 8.93% | 2.74% | 2.74% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 9.36% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 8.85% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 4 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 6.16% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 5 | NETEASE, INC. | 3.85% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 6 | BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 3.78% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 7 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 5.09% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 8 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 3.85% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 9 | MEITUAN | 5.13% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 10 | JD.COM, INC. | 3.22% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 11 | BAIDU, INC. | 2.36% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 12 | BYD COMPANY LIMITED | 3.51% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
Only in FXI
4 total- Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co.,Ltd 0.13%
- CHINA EVERBRIGHT BANK COMPANY LIMITED 0.10%
- GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc 0.10%
- S.F. Holding Co., Ltd. 0.08%
Only in SPEM
2,869 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 14.65%
- MediaTek Inc 1.82%
- 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%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.56%
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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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