ETF comparison
FNDC vs IEMG
International Developed vs International Emerging.
Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
151 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FNDC and IEMG would leave roughly 2.7% 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
IEMG is 30 bps cheaper than FNDC. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for FNDC.
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 FNDC vs IEMG.
Top shared holdings
151 shared in total| # | Holding | In FNDC | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Life Insurance Co Ltd | 0.26% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 2 | Celltrion Inc | 0.12% | 0.15% | 0.12% |
| 3 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.08% | 0.19% | 0.08% |
| 4 | HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co Ltd | 0.14% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | LS Electric Co Ltd | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | Allegro.eu SA | 0.07% | 0.08% | 0.07% |
| 7 | LG Energy Solution Ltd | 0.07% | 0.09% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Kakao Corp | 0.09% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | China Gold International Resources Corp Ltd | 0.09% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 10 | Erste Bank Polska SA | 0.14% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd | 0.11% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Meritz Financial Group Inc | 0.15% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in FNDC
1,417 total- Ibiden Co Ltd 0.45%
- easyJet PLC 0.23%
- Tower Semiconductor Ltd 0.22%
- Baytex Energy Corp 0.22%
- Helvetia Baloise Holding AG 0.22%
- Edenred SE 0.21%
- INFRONEER Holdings Inc 0.20%
- Sims Ltd 0.19%
- IMI PLC 0.19%
- Parex Resources Inc 0.19%
Only in IEMG
2,750 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 13.17%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.28%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.76%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.52%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.70%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.27%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.80%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.77%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.73%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.68%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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