ETF comparison
AVDE vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
Avantis International Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
1,913 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDE and IXUS would leave roughly 43.0% 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
IXUS is 16 bps cheaper than AVDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for AVDE.
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 IXUS.
Top shared holdings
1,913 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDE | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roche Holding AG | 0.94% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 2 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.48% | 0.60% | 0.48% |
| 3 | Allianz SE | 0.50% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 4 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.41% | 0.69% | 0.41% |
| 5 | TotalEnergies SE | 0.46% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 6 | UBS Group AG | 0.50% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 7 | Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 0.44% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 8 | ABB Ltd | 0.40% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 9 | Advantest Corp | 0.37% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 0.33% | 0.47% | 0.33% |
| 11 | Safran SA | 0.52% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 12 | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE | 0.31% | 0.32% | 0.31% |
Only in AVDE
1,383 total- ASML Holding NV 1.31%
- 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%
- BP PLC 0.48%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.46%
- ING Groep NV 0.41%
- GSK PLC 0.39%
Only in IXUS
2,576 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.60%
- SHELL PLC 0.60%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.56%
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- IXUS vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 34.6%
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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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