ETF comparison
KSA vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
61 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KSA and SPEM would leave roughly 2.6% 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 68 bps cheaper than KSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $680/yr more in fees for KSA.
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 KSA vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
61 shared in total| # | Holding | In KSA | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 13.87% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 2 | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | 11.44% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 3 | The Saudi National Bank SJSC | 8.15% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 4 | Saudi Arabian Mining Company SJSC | 4.60% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 5 | Saudi Telecom Company SJSC | 5.35% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SJSC | 3.29% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | Riyad Bank SJSC | 3.12% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | ACWA POWER Company SJSC | 2.67% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | SABIC Agri-Nutrients Company SJSC | 1.90% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | SAUDI REINSURANCE COMPANY SAUDI JOINT STOCK COMPANY | 0.20% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | ALINMA BANK SJSC | 2.78% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Etihad Etisalat Company SJSC | 1.89% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in KSA
56 total- Arab National Bank SJSC 1.51%
- Jabal Omar Development Company SJSC 0.70%
- Makkah Construction and Development Company SJSC 0.69%
- Electrical Industries Company JSC 0.68%
- THE SAUDI INVESTMENT BANK SJSC 0.65%
- Bank AlJazira SJSC 0.57%
- ADES Holding Company Listed Joint Stock Company 0.54%
- SAL Saudi Logistics Services Company SJSC 0.49%
- Rasan Information Technology Company SCJSC 0.47%
- Astra Industrial Group Company SJSC 0.42%
Only in SPEM
2,854 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 14.65%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 2.74%
- MediaTek Inc 1.82%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.79%
- 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%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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