ETF comparison
IEMG vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
1,532 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and SPEM would leave roughly 62.7% 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
SPEM is 2 bps cheaper than IEMG. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 SPEM.
Top shared holdings
1,532 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 13.17% | 14.65% | 13.17% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.52% | 2.74% | 2.52% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.70% | 1.79% | 1.70% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.27% | 1.82% | 1.27% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.80% | 1.13% | 0.80% |
| 6 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.73% | 0.81% | 0.73% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.68% | 0.93% | 0.68% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.60% | 0.83% | 0.60% |
| 9 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.45% | 0.50% | 0.45% |
| 10 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.44% | 0.82% | 0.44% |
| 11 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.43% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 12 | AL RAJHI BANKING AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION SJSC | 0.37% | 0.45% | 0.37% |
Only in IEMG
1,369 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.28%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.76%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.77%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.57%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.49%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.42%
- ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC 0.40%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.33%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.31%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.29%
Only in SPEM
1,383 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.40%
- Vale SA 0.39%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.38%
- Infosys Ltd 0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.28%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.24%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.24%
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- IEMG vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 39.8%
- IEMG vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 38.8%
- IEMG vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 34.2%
- IEMG vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 32.0%
More comparisons with SPEM
- SPEM vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 60.4%
- SPEM vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 53.8%
- SPEM vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 50.9%
- SPEM vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 45.3%
- SPEM vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 44.0%
- SPEM vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 41.4%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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