ETF comparison
PXH vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
303 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PXH and SPEM would leave roughly 42.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPEM is 40 bps cheaper than PXH. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for PXH.
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 PXH vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
303 shared in total| # | Holding | In PXH | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | 6.61% | 11.96% | 6.61% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. | 3.36% | 2.57% | 2.57% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd. | 1.97% | 3.48% | 1.97% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp. | 2.77% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 5 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.47% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics, Inc. | 0.79% | 0.93% | 0.79% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. | 2.54% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 8 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.60% | 0.70% | 0.60% |
| 9 | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. | 1.73% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 10 | HDFC Bank Ltd. | 0.55% | 0.84% | 0.55% |
| 11 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China, Ltd. | 1.59% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 12 | Bank of China Ltd. | 1.38% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
Only in PXH
62 total- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. PETROBRAS 5.12%
- JD.com, Inc. 1.55%
- Reliance Industries Ltd. 0.94%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.77%
- PTT PCL 0.70%
- United Microelectronics Corp. 0.66%
- Banco Bradesco S.A. 0.66%
- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.59%
- Infosys Ltd. 0.45%
- Gerdau S.A. 0.39%
Only in SPEM
2,642 total- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.99%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.71%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- Infosys Ltd 0.48%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.44%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.43%
- JD.com Inc 0.37%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.36%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.36%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.35%
Open PXH or SPEM 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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