ETF comparison
EEM vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
871 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EEM and SPEM would leave roughly 64.0% 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
SPEM is 65 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $650/yr more in fees for EEM.
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 EEM vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
871 shared in total| # | Holding | In EEM | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 15.03% | 14.65% | 14.65% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.87% | 2.74% | 2.74% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.94% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.45% | 1.82% | 1.45% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.92% | 1.13% | 0.92% |
| 6 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.83% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.78% | 0.93% | 0.78% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.70% | 0.83% | 0.70% |
| 9 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.50% | 0.82% | 0.50% |
| 10 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.51% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 11 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 0.43% | 0.45% | 0.43% |
| 12 | BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | 0.42% | 0.53% | 0.42% |
Only in EEM
322 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.16%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.42%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.89%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.66%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.56%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.48%
- ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC 0.46%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.37%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.36%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.34%
Only in SPEM
2,044 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.40%
- Vale SA 0.39%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.38%
- Infosys Ltd 0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.28%
- Nanya Technology Corp 0.24%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.24%
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- EEM vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 28.0%
- EEM vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 27.3%
- EEM vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 26.8%
More comparisons with SPEM
- SPEM vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 62.7%
- SPEM vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 60.4%
- SPEM vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 53.8%
- SPEM vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 50.9%
- SPEM vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 45.3%
- SPEM vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 44.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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