ETF comparison
AVDV vs EWJ
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF · iShares MSCI Japan ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDV and EWJ 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AVDV is 13 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for EWJ.
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 AVDV vs EWJ.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in AVDV
1,754 total- AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG 1.70%
- Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd 1.37%
- Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd 0.74%
- Hudbay Minerals Inc 0.67%
- OceanaGold Corp 0.62%
- Perseus Mining Ltd 0.62%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.61%
- Whitehaven Coal Ltd 0.61%
- B2Gold Corp 0.59%
- Johnson Matthey PLC 0.56%
Only in EWJ
178 total- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 4.05%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 3.43%
- SoftBank Group Corp. 3.34%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 2.87%
- Hitachi, Ltd. 2.84%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 2.56%
- Sony Group Corporation 2.54%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 2.39%
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 2.14%
- Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 2.01%
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- EWJ vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 0.0%
- EWJ vs EWA · iShares MSCI Australia ETF 0.0%
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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