ETF comparison
SPEM vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,373 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPEM and VT would leave roughly 8.6% 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
VT 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 SPEM vs VT.
Top shared holdings
2,373 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPEM | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 14.65% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 2.74% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 1.79% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 1.82% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.81% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 1.13% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.93% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.83% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.50% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.46% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Meituan | 0.36% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Xiaomi Corp | 0.39% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in SPEM
542 total- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- Vale SA 0.39%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.28%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.24%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.22%
- Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 0.12%
- Hon Precision Inc 0.12%
- Axia Energia SA 0.11%
- Zenitron Corp 0.10%
- ZTO Express Cayman Inc 0.09%
Only in VT
7,677 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.80%
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More comparisons with VT
- VT vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 8.5%
- VT vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 8.0%
- VT vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 7.9%
- VT vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 7.0%
- VT vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 6.6%
- VT vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 5.9%
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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