ETF comparison
SPEM vs VXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,394 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPEM and VXUS would leave roughly 22.0% 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
VXUS is 2 bps cheaper than SPEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
2,394 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPEM | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 14.65% | 4.10% | 4.10% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 2.74% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 1.79% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 1.82% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.81% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 1.13% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.93% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.83% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.50% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.46% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Meituan | 0.36% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Xiaomi Corp | 0.39% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in SPEM
521 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- Vale SA 0.39%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.37%
- Infosys Ltd 0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.28%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.26%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.24%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.24%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.22%
Only in VXUS
6,342 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
- Shell PLC 0.58%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.58%
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- VXUS vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 20.7%
- VXUS vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 18.3%
- VXUS vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 16.6%
- VXUS vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 15.6%
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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