ETF comparison
AVEM vs FRDM
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and FRDM would leave roughly 6.8% 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.
Holdings data for FRDM covers 13.2% of fund weight. The remainder lacks matchable identifiers in the N-PORT filing.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AVEM is 16 bps cheaper than FRDM. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for FRDM.
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 FRDM.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In FRDM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 6.33% | 8.52% | 6.33% |
| 2 | Gold Fields Ltd | 0.28% | 0.52% | 0.28% |
| 3 | Banco Bradesco SA | 0.15% | 0.51% | 0.15% |
| 4 | Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste SAB de CV | 0.05% | 0.07% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Cia Cervecerias Unidas SA | 0.01% | 0.19% | 0.01% |
Only in AVEM
3,908 total- SK hynix Inc 7.82%
- 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 FRDM
11 total- United Microelectronics Corp 1.43%
- First American Government Obligations Fund 0.43%
- Grupo Mexico SAB de CV 0.42%
- Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV 0.38%
- Cia Sud Americana de Vapores SA 0.19%
- ARCA CONTINENTAL SAB DE CV 0.14%
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico SAB de CV 0.14%
- Industrias Penoles SAB de CV 0.09%
- Grupo Financiero Inbursa SAB de CV 0.07%
- Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV 0.06%
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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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