ETF comparison
AAXJ vs VXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
910 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and VXUS would leave roughly 24.0% 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
VXUS is 67 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $670/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
910 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 17.21% | 4.10% | 4.10% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 7.68% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.93% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.55% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.41% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.46% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 1.12% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 8 | AIA Group Limited | 0.99% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.94% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.95% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.90% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.89% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in AAXJ
30 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%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 0.08%
- 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%
Only in VXUS
7,826 total- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
- Shell PLC 0.58%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.58%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.55%
- Siemens AG 0.55%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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