ETF comparison
AVEMvsVWO
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,996 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and VWO would leave roughly44.0%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VWO 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 thecost calculator pre-filled with AVEM vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
1,996 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.11% | 14.61% | 4.11% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.51% | 3.26% | 1.51% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 1.11% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 5 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.77% | 1.17% | 0.77% |
| 6 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.76% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 7 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.70% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 8 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.49% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 9 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.45% | 0.80% | 0.45% |
| 10 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.45% | 0.62% | 0.45% |
| 11 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.45% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | Bank of China Ltd | 0.49% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
Only in AVEM
1,918 total- SK hynix Inc7.82%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd6.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd5.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd0.81%
- Hyundai Motor Co0.70%
- Vale SA0.50%
- NetEase Inc0.49%
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd0.48%
- Reliance Industries Ltd0.46%
- ICICI Bank Ltd0.43%
Only in VWO
2,994 total- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd2.55%
- Reliance Industries Ltd0.90%
- Vale SA0.51%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd0.44%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA0.38%
- Infosys Ltd0.38%
- NetEase Inc0.37%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA0.36%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA0.35%
- Gold Fields Ltd0.33%
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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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