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AVEM vs VEA

International Emerging vs International Developed.

Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
4.5 %

390 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and VEA would leave roughly 4.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

AVEM unmatched 95.5% Shared 4.5% VEA unmatched 93.0%

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.

In AVEM only
3,523 positions
Shared
390 positions
In VEA only
3,472 positions

Side by side

AVEM

Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF

Avantis · International Emerging

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.33%
Net assets
$28.33B
TTM yield
2.75%
Top-10 conc.
29.8%
VEA

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Developed

94 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$313.54B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
2.47%
Top-10 conc.
13.1%

Sub-score comparison

67
Cost
97
75
Tax efficiency
78
100
Liquidity
100
72
Concentration
96
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Tracking quality
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AVEM sub-score VEA

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VEA is 30 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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 VEA.

Top shared holdings

390 shared in total
# Holding In AVEM In VEA Overlap
1 SK hynix Inc 7.82% 1.39% 1.39%
2 Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd 0.48% 0.25% 0.25%
3 Hyundai Motor Co 0.70% 0.14% 0.14%
4 Doosan Enerbility Co Ltd 0.17% 0.08% 0.08%
5 Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA 0.13% 0.07% 0.07%
6 Lenovo Group Ltd 0.31% 0.07% 0.07%
7 Kia Corp 0.34% 0.07% 0.07%
8 Samsung Life Insurance Co Ltd 0.09% 0.06% 0.06%
9 Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd 0.27% 0.06% 0.06%
10 SK Inc 0.07% 0.06% 0.06%
11 Hana Financial Group Inc 0.33% 0.06% 0.06%
12 Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN SA 0.17% 0.06% 0.06%

Only in AVEM

3,523 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 VEA

3,472 total
  • ASML Holding NV 2.36%
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
  • Novartis AG 0.90%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
  • Roche Holding AG 0.89%
  • AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
  • Nestle SA 0.82%
  • Siemens AG 0.73%

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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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