ETF comparison
SCHEvsSPEM
Both International Emerging.
Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
1,394 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHE and SPEM would leave roughly70.4%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHE is 1 bps cheaper than SPEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPEM.
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 SCHE vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
1,394 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHE | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 17.06% | 14.65% | 14.65% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 3.15% | 2.74% | 2.74% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 1.88% | 1.82% | 1.82% |
| 4 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 2.57% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 5 | Delta Electronics Inc | 1.40% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 6 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 1.04% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 7 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.83% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 8 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 9 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 0.59% | 0.82% | 0.59% |
| 10 | Bharti Airtel Ltd | 0.54% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 11 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.63% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 12 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.60% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
Only in SCHE
782 total- Reliance Industries Ltd0.88%
- United Microelectronics Corp0.50%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc0.45%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA0.41%
- Infosys Ltd0.39%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras0.32%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL0.29%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd0.28%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd0.27%
Only in SPEM
1,522 total- Reliance Industries Ltd0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp0.67%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL0.40%
- Vale SA0.39%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA0.38%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands0.37%
- Infosys Ltd0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd0.28%
- Credicorp Ltd0.26%
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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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