ETF comparison
SCHE vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund
Holdings overlap
2,083 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHE and VWO would leave roughly 81.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.060% vs 0.060%).
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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
2,083 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHE | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 14.94% | 14.61% | 14.61% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 3.94% | 3.26% | 3.26% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 3.14% | 2.55% | 2.55% |
| 4 | Reliance Industries Ltd | 1.01% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 5 | MediaTek Inc | 0.88% | 1.06% | 0.88% |
| 6 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.86% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 7 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.85% | 1.17% | 0.85% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 1.07% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 9 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.91% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.76% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 11 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.63% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 12 | ICICI Bank Ltd | 0.77% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
Only in SCHE
49 total- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.43%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.25%
- PTT PCL 0.14%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.13%
- KE Holdings Inc 0.10%
- Gulf Development PCL 0.08%
- CP ALL PCL 0.08%
- Commercial International Bank Egypt SAE 0.07%
- Airports of Thailand PCL 0.07%
- PTT Exploration & Production PCL 0.06%
Only in VWO
2,907 total- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.24%
- MPI Corp 0.12%
- PTT PCL 0.11%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.10%
- Phison Electronics Corp 0.09%
- KE Holdings Inc 0.09%
- Kasikornbank PCL 0.08%
- Macronix International Co Ltd 0.08%
- WinWay Technology Co Ltd 0.07%
- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.07%
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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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