ETF comparison
SCHE vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
1,393 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHE and SPEM would leave roughly 70.4% 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
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 the cost calculator pre-filled with SCHE vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
1,393 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 Ltd 0.88%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.50%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.45%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.41%
- Infosys Ltd 0.39%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.32%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.29%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.28%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.27%
Only in SPEM
1,522 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- 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%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.28%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.26%
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- SCHE vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 69.0%
- SCHE vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 66.8%
- SCHE vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 64.1%
- SCHE vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 64.0%
- SCHE vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 50.0%
- SCHE vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 49.0%
More comparisons with SPEM
- SPEM vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 69.6%
- SPEM vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 63.1%
- SPEM vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 61.3%
- SPEM vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 60.4%
- SPEM vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 53.8%
- SPEM vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 50.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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