ETF comparison
AVDV vs VSS
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
929 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDV and VSS would leave roughly 24.2% 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
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · International Developed
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VSS is 30 bps cheaper than AVDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for AVDV.
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 VSS.
Top shared holdings
929 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDV | In VSS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hudbay Minerals Inc | 0.67% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 2 | Finning International Inc | 0.28% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | South Bow Corp | 0.24% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 4 | Capital Power Corp | 0.25% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | NKT A/S | 0.42% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Eldorado Gold Corp | 0.33% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | IG Group Holdings PLC | 0.22% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | AL Sydbank | 0.34% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 9 | Saipem SpA | 0.54% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 10 | Umicore SA | 0.37% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Aurubis AG | 0.23% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Lion Finance Group PLC | 0.51% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in AVDV
825 total- Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd 1.37%
- Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd 0.74%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.61%
- Whitehaven Coal Ltd 0.61%
- Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd 0.56%
- Whitecap Resources Inc 0.54%
- Mitsubishi Materials Corp 0.42%
- JTEKT Corp 0.40%
- IAMGOLD Corp 0.38%
- ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd 0.37%
Only in VSS
3,889 total- Aritzia Inc 0.27%
- Storebrand ASA 0.24%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.24%
- Games Workshop Group PLC 0.24%
- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.24%
- Gaztransport Et Technigaz SA 0.23%
- Subsea 7 SA 0.21%
- Aedifica SA 0.21%
- Nordnet AB publ 0.20%
- Ringkjoebing Landbobank A/S 0.19%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AVDV
- AVDV vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 16.1%
- AVDV vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 12.9%
- AVDV vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 8.1%
- AVDV vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 7.4%
- AVDV vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 6.8%
- AVDV vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 5.8%
More comparisons with VSS
- VSS vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 21.3%
- VSS vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 18.5%
- VSS vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 15.5%
- VSS vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 14.6%
- VSS vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 7.9%
- VSS vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 7.9%
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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