ETF comparison
IEMGvsSCHE
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
1,390 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and SCHE would leave roughly69.0%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHE is 3 bps cheaper than IEMG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IEMG.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with IEMG vs SCHE.
Top shared holdings
1,390 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 12.49% | 17.06% | 12.49% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.37% | 3.15% | 2.37% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.82% | 2.57% | 1.82% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.42% | 1.88% | 1.42% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.02% | 1.40% | 1.02% |
| 6 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% | 1.04% | 0.79% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.71% | 0.88% | 0.71% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.61% | 0.83% | 0.61% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.58% | 0.88% | 0.58% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.48% | 0.65% | 0.48% |
| 11 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.44% | 0.59% | 0.44% |
| 12 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.42% | 0.57% | 0.42% |
Only in IEMG
1,277 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.6.80%
- SK hynix Inc.5.82%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.0.74%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD0.54%
- SK Square Co., Ltd.0.53%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY0.44%
- Nu Holdings Ltd.0.31%
- KB Financial Group Inc.0.25%
- DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.0.22%
- HYUNDAI MOBIS CO.,LTD0.20%
Only in SCHE
786 total- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund0.52%
- H World Group Ltd0.08%
- Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd0.07%
- Commercial International Bank Egypt SAE0.07%
- Full Truck Alliance Co Ltd0.06%
- Two Point Zero Group PJSC0.05%
- Adani Energy Solutions Ltd0.05%
- Adani Green Energy Ltd0.05%
- Bank of Cyprus Holdings PLC0.04%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA0.04%
Open IEMG or SCHE at a brokerage
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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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