ETF comparison
AVEM vs SCHE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
1,025 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and SCHE would leave roughly 42.7% 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
SCHE is 27 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 SCHE.
Top shared holdings
1,025 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.11% | 17.06% | 4.11% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.51% | 3.15% | 1.51% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 1.11% | 1.88% | 1.11% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 5 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.77% | 1.40% | 0.77% |
| 6 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.76% | 1.04% | 0.76% |
| 7 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.70% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 8 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.64% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 9 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.49% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 10 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.45% | 0.83% | 0.45% |
| 11 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.45% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 12 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.45% | 0.63% | 0.45% |
Only in AVEM
2,888 total- SK hynix Inc 7.82%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- Hyundai Motor Co 0.70%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.65%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- NetEase Inc 0.49%
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd 0.48%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.46%
Only in SCHE
1,150 total- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.57%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.88%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.59%
- Vale SA 0.55%
- NetEase Inc 0.42%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.41%
- Infosys Ltd 0.39%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.35%
- Gold Fields Ltd 0.33%
- Baidu Inc 0.33%
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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%
More comparisons with SCHE
- SCHE vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 30.9%
- SCHE vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 24.6%
- SCHE vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 23.2%
- SCHE vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 23.1%
- SCHE vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 19.3%
- SCHE vs FLIN · Franklin FTSE India ETF 15.3%
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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