ETF comparison
IEMG vs SCHE
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
1,391 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and SCHE would leave roughly 72.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHE is 3 bps cheaper than IEMG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IEMG.
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 IEMG vs SCHE.
Top shared holdings
1,391 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 11.41% | 14.94% | 11.41% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.14% | 3.94% | 3.14% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.32% | 3.14% | 2.32% |
| 4 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.82% | 1.07% | 0.82% |
| 5 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.73% | 0.86% | 0.73% |
| 6 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.72% | 0.91% | 0.72% |
| 7 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.70% | 1.01% | 0.70% |
| 8 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.70% | 0.88% | 0.70% |
| 9 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.65% | 0.85% | 0.65% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.57% | 0.77% | 0.57% |
| 11 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.57% | 0.74% | 0.57% |
| 12 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.55% | 0.76% | 0.55% |
Only in IEMG
1,282 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 5.29%
- SK hynix Inc. 3.01%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.60%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.46%
- Nu Holdings Ltd 0.38%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.31%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.30%
- KIA CORPORATION 0.25%
- DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. 0.25%
- SHINHAN FINANCIAL GROUP CO.,LTD 0.22%
Only in SCHE
741 total- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.43%
- H World Group Ltd 0.10%
- KE Holdings Inc 0.10%
- Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd 0.09%
- SenseTime Group Inc 0.09%
- Full Truck Alliance Co Ltd 0.08%
- Commercial International Bank Egypt SAE 0.07%
- Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable Joint Stock Ltd Co 0.06%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.04%
- Bank of Cyprus Holdings PLC 0.04%
Open IEMG or SCHE at a brokerage
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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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