ETF comparison
AVEM vs EMXC
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF
Holdings overlap
562 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and EMXC would leave roughly 42.3% 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
EMXC is 8 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for AVEM.
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 AVEM vs EMXC.
Top shared holdings
562 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In EMXC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 7.82% | 8.35% | 7.82% |
| 2 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.11% | 17.94% | 4.11% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 1.11% | 2.04% | 1.11% |
| 4 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.77% | 1.47% | 0.77% |
| 5 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.76% | 1.13% | 0.76% |
| 6 | Hyundai Motor Co | 0.70% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 7 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.64% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 8 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.48% | 0.78% | 0.48% |
| 9 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.45% | 0.87% | 0.45% |
| 10 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.45% | 0.47% | 0.45% |
| 11 | Unimicron Technology Corp | 0.52% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 12 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.39% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in AVEM
3,351 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.70%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.51%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.88%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.70%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.65%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- Bank of China Ltd 0.49%
- Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd 0.49%
Only in EMXC
80 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 9.75%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.07%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.83%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.75%
- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 0.62%
- VALE S.A. 0.58%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.42%
- INFOSYS LIMITED 0.39%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.38%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.36%
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- AVEM vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 37.7%
- AVEM vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 32.6%
- AVEM vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 31.5%
- AVEM vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 31.0%
- AVEM vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 22.7%
More comparisons with EMXC
- EMXC vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 34.2%
- EMXC vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 33.3%
- EMXC vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 32.8%
- EMXC vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 28.1%
- EMXC vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 22.0%
- EMXC vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 20.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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