ETF comparison
IXUS vs SCHE
International Total vs International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
1,225 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXUS and SCHE would leave roughly 23.2% 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
SCHE is 1 bps cheaper than IXUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IXUS.
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 IXUS vs SCHE.
Top shared holdings
1,225 shared in total| # | Holding | In IXUS | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 4.29% | 17.06% | 4.29% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 0.88% | 3.15% | 0.88% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.60% | 2.57% | 0.60% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.36% | 1.88% | 0.36% |
| 5 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.23% | 0.88% | 0.23% |
| 6 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.23% | 1.40% | 0.23% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.22% | 1.04% | 0.22% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.21% | 0.83% | 0.21% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.20% | 0.88% | 0.20% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.18% | 0.65% | 0.18% |
| 11 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.15% | 0.57% | 0.15% |
| 12 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.14% | 0.63% | 0.14% |
Only in IXUS
3,264 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
- Nestle S.A. 0.60%
- SHELL PLC 0.60%
Only in SCHE
950 total- H World Group Ltd 0.08%
- Commercial International Bank Egypt SAE 0.07%
- Two Point Zero Group PJSC 0.05%
- Adani Energy Solutions Ltd 0.05%
- Adani Green Energy Ltd 0.05%
- Bank of Cyprus Holdings PLC 0.04%
- Destek Finans Faktoring AS 0.04%
- Ecopetrol SA 0.03%
- Hindustan Zinc Ltd 0.03%
- Steel Authority of India Ltd 0.03%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 22.7%
- IXUS vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 22.0%
- IXUS vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 21.7%
- IXUS vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 21.6%
- IXUS vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 21.4%
- IXUS vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 19.1%
More comparisons with SCHE
- SCHE vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 23.1%
- SCHE vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 19.3%
- SCHE vs FLIN · Franklin FTSE India ETF 15.3%
- SCHE vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 14.7%
- SCHE vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 13.7%
- SCHE vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 13.6%
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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