ETF comparison
SPEM vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund
Holdings overlap
2,375 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPEM and VWO would leave roughly 68.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VWO 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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
2,375 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPEM | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 11.96% | 14.61% | 11.96% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 3.48% | 3.26% | 3.26% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 2.57% | 2.55% | 2.55% |
| 4 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.93% | 1.17% | 0.93% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.95% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc | 0.82% | 1.06% | 0.82% |
| 7 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.84% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 8 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.77% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 9 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.70% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 10 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.60% | 0.62% | 0.60% |
| 11 | Xiaomi Corp | 0.64% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 12 | Bharti Airtel Ltd | 0.57% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
Only in SPEM
570 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%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.36%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.32%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.31%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.25%
- Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA 0.24%
Only in VWO
2,615 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.90%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.40%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.38%
- Infosys Ltd 0.38%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.36%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.35%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.26%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.25%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.21%
- Banco Bradesco SA 0.16%
Open SPEM or VWO at a brokerage
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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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