ETF comparison
AAXJ vs SCHE
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
800 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and SCHE would leave roughly 66.8% 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
SCHE is 66 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $660/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 SCHE.
Top shared holdings
800 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 17.21% | 17.06% | 17.06% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.55% | 3.15% | 3.15% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.41% | 2.57% | 2.41% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.46% | 1.88% | 1.46% |
| 5 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.90% | 1.40% | 0.90% |
| 6 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.89% | 1.04% | 0.89% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.94% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.84% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.78% | 0.88% | 0.78% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.75% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 11 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.59% | 0.63% | 0.59% |
| 12 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.59% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
Only in AAXJ
140 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.68%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.93%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.12%
- AIA Group Limited 0.99%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.95%
- OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 0.70%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.60%
- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited 0.58%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 0.40%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.39%
Only in SCHE
1,375 total- Vale SA 0.55%
- Al Rajhi Bank 0.49%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.45%
- Saudi Arabian Oil Co 0.41%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.41%
- Naspers Ltd 0.37%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.35%
- Gold Fields Ltd 0.33%
- Grupo Mexico SAB de CV 0.33%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.32%
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- AAXJ vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 61.2%
- AAXJ vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 60.2%
- AAXJ vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 53.8%
- AAXJ vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 41.0%
More comparisons with SCHE
- SCHE vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 64.1%
- SCHE vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 64.0%
- SCHE vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 50.0%
- SCHE vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 49.0%
- SCHE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 47.4%
- SCHE vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 42.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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