ETF comparison
ASHR vs VEA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ASHR and VEA would leave roughly 0.0% 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.
Holdings data for ASHR covers 37.2% of fund weight. The remainder lacks matchable identifiers in the N-PORT filing.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VEA is 62 bps cheaper than ASHR. On a $100,000 position that's about $620/yr more in fees for ASHR.
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 ASHR vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in ASHR
285 total- EOPTOLINK TECHNOLOGY INC LTD 2.62%
- CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO LTD 1.34%
- SUZHOU DONGSHAN PRECISION MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD 1.05%
- KWEICHOW MOUTAI COMPANY LTD 0.91%
- VICTORY GIANT TECHNOLOGY (HUIZHOU) CO LTD 0.85%
- PING AN INSURANCE (GROUP) COMPANY OF CHINA LTD 0.82%
- SUZHOU TFC OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CO LTD 0.81%
- WUS PRINTED CIRCUIT (KUNSHAN)CO LTD 0.69%
- ZIJIN MINING GROUP CO LTD 0.68%
- ZHONGJI INNOLIGHT CO LTD 0.55%
Only in VEA
3,862 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
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More comparisons with ASHR
- ASHR vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 14.0%
- ASHR vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 4.2%
- ASHR vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 3.9%
- ASHR vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 3.6%
- ASHR vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 3.4%
- ASHR vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 3.2%
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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