SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
SPEM NYSE Arca
The SPDR® Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the S&P® Emerging BMI Index
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- Fund size
- 3.54B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.11% per year
- Dividend yield
- 2.68% Semiyearly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 17.7% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.73 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 44.7753.41
How SPEM has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, SPEM returned +7.2% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +2.8 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±18% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −11.4% on Mar 30, 2026 — 33 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 16% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.73 means SPEM has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average49.97 −3.0%
- 26-day average50.78 −4.5%
- 50-day average51.27 −5.5%
- 200-day average49.97 −3.0%
The price is above 0 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OversoldRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Emerging Markets · Investable Market Core — tracking the S&P® Emerging BMI Index.
- Assets under management3.54BUSD
- Expense ratio0.11%per year
- Holdings2,159
- Risk score3.8Low
Launched March 2007. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 27 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.30
- Frequency
- Semiyearly
- Last paid
- Jun 22, 2026
Last 12 months
0.77 USD / shareWhere SPEM shows up
Curated themes and indices that hold SPEM. Open one to see it in context, or test the whole theme in a portfolio.
About SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
The SPDR® Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the S&P® Emerging BMI Index
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 2,159 holdings
- Ticker
- SPEM
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US78463X5095
- CUSIP
- 78463X509
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Emerging Markets
- Industry
- Investable Market Core
- Benchmark
- S&P® Emerging BMI Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.