ETF comparison
DFAE vs ESGE
Both International Emerging.
Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF
Holdings overlap
246 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAE and ESGE would leave roughly 50.8% 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
ESGE is 4 bps cheaper than DFAE. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for DFAE.
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 DFAE vs ESGE.
Top shared holdings
246 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAE | In ESGE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 13.19% | 15.08% | 13.19% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 5.17% | 7.25% | 5.17% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 4.54% | 5.55% | 4.54% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.57% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.20% | 1.71% | 1.20% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.97% | 1.41% | 0.97% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.77% | 1.19% | 0.77% |
| 8 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.62% | 1.09% | 0.62% |
| 9 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 10 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.46% | 0.65% | 0.46% |
| 11 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.43% | 0.59% | 0.43% |
| 12 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.41% | 0.44% | 0.41% |
Only in DFAE
6,022 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.67%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.45%
- BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED 0.44%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.39%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.39%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.30%
- VALE S.A. 0.29%
- Saudi Arabian Oil Company 0.28%
- Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. 0.26%
Only in ESGE
41 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.94%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.65%
- BAJAJ FINANCE LIMITED 0.52%
- WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd. 0.44%
- SHRIRAM FINANCE LIMITED 0.37%
- China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. 0.32%
- PTT Public Company Limited 0.28%
- SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION 0.26%
- BAIDU, INC. 0.24%
- SWIGGY LIMITED 0.21%
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More comparisons with DFAE
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- DFAE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 35.2%
- DFAE vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 28.6%
- DFAE vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 28.3%
- DFAE vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 23.1%
- DFAE vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 22.9%
More comparisons with ESGE
- ESGE vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 50.0%
- ESGE vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 46.4%
- ESGE vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 44.0%
- ESGE vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 35.1%
- ESGE vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 34.6%
- ESGE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 34.4%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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