ETF comparison
EWT vs SCHE
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
82 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWT and SCHE would leave roughly 24.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHE is 53 bps cheaper than EWT. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/yr more in fees for EWT.
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 EWT vs SCHE.
Top shared holdings
82 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWT | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 21.93% | 14.94% | 14.94% |
| 2 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 4.60% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc. | 4.62% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 4 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 4.47% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 5 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 2.43% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 6 | CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.81% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 7 | Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.56% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | QUANTA COMPUTER INC. | 1.50% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 9 | UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. | 1.40% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 10 | Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.39% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | Accton Technology Corp. | 1.71% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 1.76% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in EWT
2 total- HonPrecision Inc 0.82%
- YA HSIN INDUSTRIAL CO LTD 0.00%
Only in SCHE
2,050 total- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.94%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 3.14%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 1.07%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 1.01%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.86%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.77%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.76%
- Xiaomi Corp 0.74%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.63%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.61%
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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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