ETF comparison
AVEM vs KSA
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF
Holdings overlap
91 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and KSA would leave roughly 1.9% 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 42 bps cheaper than KSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/yr more in fees for KSA.
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 KSA.
Top shared holdings
91 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In KSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabian Oil Co | 0.29% | 11.44% | 0.29% |
| 2 | Al Rajhi Bank | 0.23% | 13.87% | 0.23% |
| 3 | Saudi National Bank/The | 0.16% | 8.15% | 0.16% |
| 4 | Saudi Telecom Co | 0.13% | 5.35% | 0.13% |
| 5 | Alinma Bank | 0.13% | 2.78% | 0.13% |
| 6 | Riyad Bank | 0.09% | 3.12% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Etihad Etisalat Co | 0.07% | 1.89% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Saudi Awwal Bank | 0.06% | 2.69% | 0.06% |
| 9 | Banque Saudi Fransi | 0.05% | 1.85% | 0.05% |
| 10 | Almarai Co JSC | 0.05% | 1.75% | 0.05% |
| 11 | Ades Holding Co | 0.05% | 0.54% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Arab National Bank | 0.04% | 1.51% | 0.04% |
Only in AVEM
3,822 total- SK hynix Inc 7.82%
- 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%
Only in KSA
26 total- Taiba Investment Company SJSC 0.40%
- Saudi Industrial Investment Group Company SJSC 0.40%
- Advanced Petrochemical Company SJSC 0.29%
- CATRION CATERING HOLDING COMPANY SJSC 0.26%
- Saudi Research and Media Group SJSC 0.24%
- Qassim Cement Company SJSC 0.23%
- Al Rajhi REIT Fund 0.21%
- SAUDI REINSURANCE COMPANY SAUDI JOINT STOCK COMPANY 0.20%
- Dr Soliman Abdel Kader Fakeeh Hospital Company SCJSC 0.20%
- Al Hammadi Holding Company SJSC 0.20%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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