ETF comparison
ESGE vs SCHE
Both International Emerging.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
243 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and SCHE would leave roughly 51.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHE is 19 bps cheaper than ESGE. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/yr more in fees for ESGE.
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 SCHE.
Top shared holdings
243 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 13.61% | 14.94% | 13.61% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 3.56% | 3.94% | 3.56% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 2.51% | 3.14% | 2.51% |
| 4 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 1.13% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 1.23% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.92% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 7 | Reliance Industries Ltd | 0.84% | 1.01% | 0.84% |
| 8 | MediaTek Inc | 0.72% | 0.88% | 0.72% |
| 9 | Xiaomi Corp | 0.66% | 0.74% | 0.66% |
| 10 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.63% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 11 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.58% | 0.91% | 0.58% |
| 12 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.77% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
Only in ESGE
53 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.28%
- SK hynix Inc 3.72%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.00%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.59%
- Woori Financial Group Inc 0.57%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.57%
- SK Square Co Ltd 0.54%
- SK Inc 0.53%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.51%
- Hana Financial Group Inc 0.50%
Only in SCHE
1,889 total- Vale SA 0.59%
- Bharti Airtel Ltd 0.55%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.43%
- Saudi Arabian Oil Co 0.38%
- Grupo Mexico SAB de CV 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.34%
- Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd 0.33%
- Kuwait Finance House KSCP 0.31%
- Saudi National Bank/The 0.31%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.30%
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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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