ETF comparison
SPEM vs VEA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
37 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPEM and VEA would leave roughly 0.6% 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
VEA is 4 bps cheaper than SPEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/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 SPEM vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
37 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPEM | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA | 0.25% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | Lenovo Group Ltd | 0.21% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 3 | ORLEN SA | 0.18% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | KGHM Polska Miedz SA | 0.18% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 5 | Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA | 0.15% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen SA | 0.08% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Allegro.eu SA | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | WH Group Ltd | 0.08% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | Erste Bank Polska SA | 0.08% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | SITC International Holdings Co Ltd | 0.06% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Metlen Energy & Metals PLC | 0.04% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | mBank SA | 0.10% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in SPEM
2,878 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 14.65%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 2.74%
- MediaTek Inc 1.82%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.79%
- Delta Electronics Inc 1.13%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.93%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.83%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.82%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
Only in VEA
3,825 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
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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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