ETF comparison
ESGE vs FXI
Both International Emerging.
Holdings overlap
30 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and FXI would leave roughly 11.8% 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 48 bps cheaper than FXI. On a $100,000 position that's about $480/yr more in fees for FXI.
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 ESGE vs FXI.
Top shared holdings
30 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In FXI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.56% | 8.93% | 2.56% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.71% | 9.36% | 1.71% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 1.19% | 8.85% | 1.19% |
| 4 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.65% | 6.16% | 0.65% |
| 5 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.59% | 3.85% | 0.59% |
| 6 | NETEASE, INC. | 0.48% | 3.85% | 0.48% |
| 7 | BYD COMPANY LIMITED | 0.47% | 3.51% | 0.47% |
| 8 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.44% | 5.09% | 0.44% |
| 9 | MEITUAN | 0.43% | 5.13% | 0.43% |
| 10 | China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. | 0.29% | 1.96% | 0.29% |
| 11 | CHINA CITIC BANK CORPORATION LIMITED | 0.25% | 0.70% | 0.25% |
| 12 | BAIDU, INC. | 0.24% | 2.36% | 0.24% |
Only in ESGE
257 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 15.08%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.25%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.55%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.41%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.09%
- Lenovo Group Limited 1.05%
- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 1.05%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.94%
- Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. 0.84%
- AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC 0.82%
Only in FXI
20 total- Zijin Mining Group Company Limited 2.02%
- China Shenhua Energy Company Limited 1.49%
- China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation 1.01%
- ANTA SPORTS PRODUCTS LIMITED 0.99%
- CHINA RESOURCES LAND LIMITED 0.97%
- CHINA HONGQIAO GROUP LIMITED 0.82%
- NONGFU SPRING CO., LTD. 0.80%
- WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd. 0.73%
- Weichai Power Co., Ltd. 0.65%
- Midea Group Co., Ltd. 0.62%
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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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