ETF comparison
SCHF vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
Schwab International Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
1,380 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHF and SPDW would leave roughly 84.8% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SCHF vs SPDW.
Top shared holdings
1,380 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHF | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 2.81% | 2.79% | 2.79% |
| 2 | ASML Holding NV | 2.10% | 2.28% | 2.10% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 1.08% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 4 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.93% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.99% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.97% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.88% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 9 | Siemens AG | 0.77% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.69% | 0.72% | 0.69% |
| 11 | Shell PLC | 0.80% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 12 | BHP Group Ltd | 0.74% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
Only in SCHF
95 total- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.13%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.11%
- Amrize Ltd 0.09%
- Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA 0.08%
- Lenovo Group Ltd 0.08%
- Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN SA 0.08%
- POSCO Holdings Inc 0.07%
- Investor AB 0.07%
- RB Global Inc 0.07%
- Telecom Italia SpA/Milano 0.05%
Only in SPDW
1,048 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.21%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.15%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.11%
- Sea Ltd 0.10%
- AerCap Holdings NV 0.08%
- Ryanair Holdings PLC 0.06%
- Telecom Italia SpA/Milano 0.06%
- POSCO Holdings Inc 0.05%
- Aritzia Inc 0.05%
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More comparisons with SCHF
- SCHF vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 84.3%
- SCHF vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 76.4%
- SCHF vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 71.8%
- SCHF vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 71.5%
- SCHF vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 69.7%
- SCHF vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 68.5%
More comparisons with SPDW
- SPDW vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 83.1%
- SPDW vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 74.7%
- SPDW vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 68.7%
- SPDW vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 68.6%
- SPDW vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 67.3%
- SPDW vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 67.3%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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