ETF comparison
MCHI vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI China ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
431 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MCHI and SPEM would leave roughly 21.3% 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 52 bps cheaper than MCHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $520/yr more in fees for MCHI.
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 MCHI vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
431 shared in total| # | Holding | In MCHI | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 13.93% | 2.74% | 2.74% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 9.42% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 4.00% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 4 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 2.47% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 5 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 1.87% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 6 | NETEASE, INC. | 1.68% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 7 | BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 1.97% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 8 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 2.37% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 9 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 1.84% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 10 | MEITUAN | 1.98% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 11 | JD.COM, INC. | 1.27% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 12 | BAIDU, INC. | 0.98% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
Only in MCHI
143 total- KE Holdings Inc. 0.46%
- H World Group Limited 0.34%
- ZTO EXPRESS (CAYMAN) INC. 0.32%
- CHINA GOLD INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES CORP. LTD. 0.30%
- NIO INC. 0.29%
- Zijin Gold International Co Ltd 0.26%
- SenseTime Group Inc 0.20%
- Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. 0.13%
- J&T Global Express Limited 0.11%
- CRRC Corporation Limited 0.11%
Only in SPEM
2,484 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 14.65%
- MediaTek Inc 1.82%
- Delta Electronics Inc 1.13%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.93%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.83%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.82%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.56%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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