ETF comparison
AAXJ vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
915 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and VT would leave roughly 9.2% 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
VT 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 VT.
Top shared holdings
915 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 17.21% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 7.68% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.93% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.55% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.41% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.46% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 1.12% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | AIA Group Limited | 0.99% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.94% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 10 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.95% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.90% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.89% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in AAXJ
25 total- SEA LIMITED 0.38%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.24%
- HonPrecision Inc 0.14%
- PTT Public Company Limited 0.11%
- ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.10%
- H World Group Limited 0.07%
- GULF DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.07%
- CP All Public Company Limited 0.07%
- Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited 0.07%
- HKT Trust and HKT Limited 0.06%
Only in VT
9,135 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.80%
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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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