ETF comparison
AAXJ vs FLIN
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · Franklin FTSE India ETF
Holdings overlap
164 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and FLIN would leave roughly 13.1% 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
FLIN is 53 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/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 the cost calculator pre-filled with AAXJ vs FLIN.
Top shared holdings
164 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In FLIN | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.84% | 5.74% | 0.84% |
| 2 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.78% | 5.49% | 0.78% |
| 3 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.75% | 4.61% | 0.75% |
| 4 | BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | 0.54% | 3.55% | 0.54% |
| 5 | INFOSYS LIMITED | 0.34% | 2.15% | 0.34% |
| 6 | MAHINDRA AND MAHINDRA LIMITED | 0.29% | 1.80% | 0.29% |
| 7 | BAJAJ FINANCE LIMITED | 0.28% | 1.73% | 0.28% |
| 8 | AXIS BANK LIMITED | 0.28% | 1.95% | 0.28% |
| 9 | LARSEN AND TOUBRO LIMITED | 0.26% | 1.76% | 0.26% |
| 10 | KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK LIMITED | 0.21% | 1.36% | 0.21% |
| 11 | TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED | 0.19% | 1.31% | 0.19% |
| 12 | State Bank of India | 0.19% | 1.20% | 0.19% |
Only in AAXJ
776 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 17.21%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.68%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.93%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 3.55%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.46%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.12%
- AIA Group Limited 0.99%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.95%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.94%
Only in FLIN
115 total- LAURUS LABS LTD 0.35%
- COFORGE LTD 0.32%
- ADANI ENERGY SOLUTIONS LTD 0.29%
- ADANI GREEN ENERGY LTD 0.28%
- MAX FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD 0.26%
- EMBASSY OFFICE PARKS REIT 0.24%
- KEI INDUSTRIES LTD 0.21%
- GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS LTD 0.20%
- BIOCON LTD 0.19%
- 360 ONE WAM LTD 0.18%
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More comparisons with FLIN
- FLIN vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 11.0%
- FLIN vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 10.8%
- FLIN vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 10.4%
- FLIN vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 9.9%
- FLIN vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 9.5%
- FLIN vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 9.4%
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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