ETF comparison
AAXJvsASHR
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF
Holdings overlap
244 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and ASHR would leave roughly3.9%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Holdings data for ASHR covers 37.2% of fund weight. The remainder lacks matchable identifiers in the N-PORT filing.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ASHR is 7 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for AAXJ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with AAXJ vs ASHR.
Top shared holdings
244 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In ASHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. | 0.17% | 1.34% | 0.17% |
| 2 | Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd. | 0.14% | 0.91% | 0.14% |
| 3 | Zhongji Innolight Co Ltd | 0.08% | 0.55% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. | 0.07% | 0.54% | 0.07% |
| 5 | China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. | 0.07% | 0.52% | 0.07% |
| 6 | Cambricon Technologies Corp Ltd | 0.07% | 0.25% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Zijin Mining Group Company Limited | 0.07% | 0.68% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Hygon Information Technology Co Ltd | 0.06% | 0.17% | 0.06% |
| 9 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.06% | 0.82% | 0.06% |
| 10 | China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. | 0.05% | 0.41% | 0.05% |
| 11 | BYD COMPANY LIMITED | 0.05% | 0.29% | 0.05% |
| 12 | AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.05% | 0.25% | 0.05% |
Only in AAXJ
661 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited16.28%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.6.78%
- SK hynix Inc.4.63%
- Tencent Holdings Limited3.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.70%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.1.30%
- MediaTek Inc.1.21%
- AIA Group Limited1.09%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION1.03%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD0.90%
Only in ASHR
41 total- SAILUN GROUP CO LTD0.13%
- BEIJING COMPASS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO LTD0.13%
- ANKER INNOVATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO LTD0.12%
- LOONGSON TECHNOLOGY CORP LTD0.12%
- ACM RESEARCH (SHANGHAI) INC0.10%
- ISOFTSTONE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (GROUP) CO LTD0.10%
- CHINA RAILWAY SIGNAL & COMMUNICATION CORP LTD0.09%
- HUAQIN TECHNOLOGY CO LTD0.09%
- BEIJING ROBOROCK TECHNOLOGIE CO LTD0.08%
- HUADIAN NEW ENERGY GROUP CORP LTD0.08%
Open AAXJ or ASHR 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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