ETF comparison
AAXJ vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
795 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and VWO would leave roughly 61.2% 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
VWO 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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
795 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 17.21% | 15.56% | 15.56% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.55% | 3.31% | 3.31% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.41% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.46% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 5 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.94% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 6 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.90% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.89% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.78% | 0.80% | 0.78% |
| 9 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.84% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 10 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.75% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 11 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.59% | 0.66% | 0.59% |
| 12 | MEITUAN | 0.55% | 0.56% | 0.55% |
Only in AAXJ
145 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 VWO
4,185 total- Vale SA 0.46%
- Al Rajhi Bank 0.43%
- Saudi Arabian Oil Co 0.36%
- Naspers Ltd 0.35%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.35%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.33%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.33%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.31%
- Grupo Mexico SAB de CV 0.29%
- OTP Bank Nyrt 0.29%
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- AAXJ vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 38.5%
- AAXJ vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 35.0%
- AAXJ vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 29.5%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 56.6%
- VWO vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 46.4%
- VWO vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 45.1%
- VWO vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 43.6%
- VWO vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 42.8%
- VWO vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 27.9%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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