ETF comparison
AVDE vs DXJ
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Equity ETF · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund
Holdings overlap
359 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDE and DXJ would leave roughly 12.6% 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
AVDE is 25 bps cheaper than DXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for DXJ.
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 AVDE vs DXJ.
Top shared holdings
359 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDE | In DXJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advantest Corp | 0.37% | 0.45% | 0.37% |
| 2 | Fujikura Ltd | 0.35% | 0.65% | 0.35% |
| 3 | Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd | 0.31% | 1.53% | 0.31% |
| 4 | Hitachi Ltd | 0.29% | 0.91% | 0.29% |
| 5 | TDK Corp | 0.26% | 0.42% | 0.26% |
| 6 | Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd | 0.49% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Furukawa Electric Co Ltd | 0.24% | 0.31% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd | 0.24% | 2.06% | 0.24% |
| 9 | Tokio Marine Holdings Inc | 0.24% | 2.81% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd | 0.22% | 0.49% | 0.22% |
| 11 | Daiichi Life Group Inc | 0.19% | 1.13% | 0.19% |
| 12 | MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc | 0.19% | 1.00% | 0.19% |
Only in AVDE
2,937 total- ASML Holding NV 1.31%
- Roche Holding AG 0.94%
- Shell PLC 0.83%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.81%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.59%
- Novartis AG 0.54%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 0.52%
- Safran SA 0.52%
- UBS Group AG 0.50%
- Allianz SE 0.50%
Only in DXJ
67 total- MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC 4.63%
- SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUP INC 3.62%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORP 3.54%
- MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP INC 2.70%
- JAPAN TOBACCO INC 2.14%
- TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LTD 1.65%
- HONDA MOTOR CO LTD 1.54%
- CANON INC 0.87%
- NOMURA HOLDINGS INC 0.82%
- SONY GROUP CORP 0.44%
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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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