ETF comparison
SCHE vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,153 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHE and VWO would leave roughly 84.8% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.060% vs 0.060%).
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 SCHE vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
2,153 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHE | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 16.98% | 15.56% | 15.56% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 3.33% | 3.31% | 3.31% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 2.54% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 1.68% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.99% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 1.03% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.89% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | Reliance Industries Ltd | 0.83% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 9 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.78% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 10 | ICICI Bank Ltd | 0.75% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 11 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.71% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 12 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.59% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
Only in SCHE
36 total- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.20%
- PTT PCL 0.14%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.09%
- Commercial International Bank Egypt SAE 0.07%
- Gulf Development PCL 0.07%
- CP ALL PCL 0.07%
- Airports of Thailand PCL 0.07%
- Central Pattana PCL 0.05%
- PTT Exploration & Production PCL 0.05%
- TMBThanachart Bank PCL 0.04%
Only in VWO
2,827 total- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.20%
- PTT PCL 0.12%
- Kasikornbank PCL 0.09%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.09%
- Banca Transilvania SA 0.07%
- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.07%
- Gulf Development PCL 0.07%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.07%
- Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd 0.07%
- SCB X PCL 0.06%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SCHE
- SCHE vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 75.9%
- SCHE vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 70.9%
- SCHE vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 70.2%
- SCHE vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 67.6%
- SCHE vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 64.4%
- SCHE vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 64.2%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 72.3%
- VWO vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 71.0%
- VWO vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 69.6%
- VWO vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 67.0%
- VWO vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 61.2%
- VWO vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 57.1%
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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