ETF comparison
AVEM vs MCHI
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI China ETF
Holdings overlap
134 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and MCHI would leave roughly 14.8% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AVEM is 26 bps cheaper than MCHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for MCHI.
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Top shared holdings
134 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In MCHI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.51% | 13.21% | 1.51% |
| 2 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 3.97% | 0.88% |
| 3 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.70% | 2.28% | 0.70% |
| 4 | Bank of China Ltd | 0.49% | 1.80% | 0.49% |
| 5 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.49% | 1.96% | 0.49% |
| 6 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.45% | 2.10% | 0.45% |
| 7 | China Life Insurance Co Ltd | 0.35% | 1.05% | 0.35% |
| 8 | Lenovo Group Ltd | 0.31% | 0.94% | 0.31% |
| 9 | PetroChina Co Ltd | 0.30% | 1.12% | 0.30% |
| 10 | Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd | 0.27% | 0.97% | 0.27% |
| 11 | Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd | 0.26% | 0.60% | 0.26% |
| 12 | China Hongqiao Group Ltd | 0.26% | 0.39% | 0.26% |
Only in AVEM
3,779 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%
- MediaTek Inc 1.11%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- Chroma ATE Inc 0.81%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.77%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.76%
- Hyundai Motor Co 0.70%
Only in MCHI
442 total- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 10.14%
- NETEASE, INC. 1.63%
- BAIDU, INC. 1.44%
- TRIP.COM GROUP LIMITED 1.11%
- BeOne Medicines AG 0.74%
- Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. 0.64%
- Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd. 0.56%
- Zhongji Innolight Co Ltd 0.45%
- Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company 0.44%
- KE Holdings Inc. 0.42%
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- MCHI vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 2.4%
- MCHI vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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