ETF comparison
PXH vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
300 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PXH and SPEM would leave roughly 41.4% 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 40 bps cheaper than PXH. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for PXH.
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 PXH vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
300 shared in total| # | Holding | In PXH | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | 6.18% | 14.65% | 6.18% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd. | 2.24% | 2.74% | 2.24% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. | 3.31% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.67% | 1.82% | 1.67% |
| 5 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. | 2.57% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 6 | Ase Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.81% | 0.82% | 0.81% |
| 7 | China Construction Bank Corp. | 2.71% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd. | 0.62% | 0.83% | 0.62% |
| 9 | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. | 1.96% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.67% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 11 | CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.43% | 0.56% | 0.43% |
| 12 | NetEase, Inc. | 0.45% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
Only in PXH
58 total- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. PETROBRAS 4.20%
- JD.com, Inc. 1.86%
- Reliance Industries Ltd. 0.92%
- United Microelectronics Corp. 0.92%
- PTT PCL 0.77%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.71%
- Banco Bradesco S.A. 0.56%
- Infosys Ltd. 0.50%
- Gerdau S.A. 0.38%
- BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Ltd. 0.37%
Only in SPEM
2,615 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- Elite Material Co Ltd 0.40%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.40%
- Vale SA 0.39%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.38%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.37%
- Infosys Ltd 0.33%
- OTP Bank Nyrt 0.31%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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