ETF comparison
AVEM vs EWY
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Holdings overlap
68 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and EWY would leave roughly 13.5% 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
AVEM is 26 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for EWY.
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 EWY.
Top shared holdings
68 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In EWY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 7.82% | 30.85% | 7.82% |
| 2 | Hyundai Motor Co | 0.70% | 2.43% | 0.70% |
| 3 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.48% | 3.42% | 0.48% |
| 4 | LG Electronics Inc | 0.38% | 0.96% | 0.38% |
| 5 | Kia Corp | 0.34% | 1.01% | 0.34% |
| 6 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.33% | 0.83% | 0.33% |
| 7 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.27% | 1.01% | 0.27% |
| 8 | Woori Financial Group Inc | 0.21% | 0.53% | 0.21% |
| 9 | Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd | 0.19% | 0.55% | 0.19% |
| 10 | HD Hyundai Co Ltd | 0.19% | 0.38% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Doosan Enerbility Co Ltd | 0.17% | 1.21% | 0.17% |
| 12 | Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co Ltd | 0.17% | 0.49% | 0.17% |
Only in AVEM
3,845 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.70%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.11%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.51%
- MediaTek Inc 1.11%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.88%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- Chroma ATE Inc 0.81%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.77%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.76%
Only in EWY
13 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 23.88%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 3.08%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 1.40%
- SHINHAN FINANCIAL GROUP CO.,LTD 1.03%
- POSCO Holdings Inc. 0.82%
- KT&G Corporation 0.50%
- SK TELECOM CO., LTD. 0.36%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.32%
- KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION 0.30%
- LG Display Co., Ltd. 0.25%
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- EWY vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 5.1%
- EWY vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 2.0%
- EWY vs ASHR · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares 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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