ETF comparison
SCHE vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
1,386 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHE and SPEM would leave roughly 69.9% 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 the cost calculator pre-filled with SCHE vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
1,386 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHE | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 14.94% | 11.96% | 11.96% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 3.94% | 3.48% | 3.48% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 3.14% | 2.57% | 2.57% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.86% | 0.95% | 0.86% |
| 5 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.85% | 0.93% | 0.85% |
| 6 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 1.07% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 7 | MediaTek Inc | 0.88% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 8 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.91% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 9 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.76% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 10 | Xiaomi Corp | 0.74% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 11 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.63% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 12 | Bharti Airtel Ltd | 0.55% | 0.57% | 0.55% |
Only in SCHE
746 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 1.01%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.61%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.48%
- Infosys Ltd 0.48%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.34%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.30%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.30%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.25%
- State Bank of India 0.24%
Only in SPEM
1,559 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.99%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- Infosys Ltd 0.48%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.44%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.43%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.36%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.36%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.32%
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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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