ETF comparison
AVEM vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,997 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and VWO would leave roughly 43.6% 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
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 the cost calculator pre-filled with AVEM vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
1,997 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.11% | 15.56% | 4.11% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.51% | 3.31% | 1.51% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 1.11% | 1.36% | 1.11% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 0.90% | 0.88% |
| 5 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.77% | 0.82% | 0.77% |
| 6 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.76% | 0.81% | 0.76% |
| 7 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.70% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.45% | 0.78% | 0.45% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.45% | 0.66% | 0.45% |
| 10 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.49% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 11 | Bank of China Ltd | 0.49% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 12 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.45% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
Only in AVEM
1,916 total- SK hynix Inc 7.82%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- Hyundai Motor Co 0.70%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- NetEase Inc 0.49%
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd 0.48%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.46%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.43%
- LG Electronics Inc 0.38%
Only in VWO
2,983 total- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.49%
- Vale SA 0.46%
- NetEase Inc 0.42%
- Infosys Ltd 0.35%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.33%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.31%
- Axis Bank Ltd 0.26%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AVEM
- AVEM vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 42.9%
- AVEM vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 42.7%
- AVEM vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 42.3%
- AVEM vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 41.0%
- AVEM vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 37.7%
- AVEM vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 32.6%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 42.8%
- VWO vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 27.9%
- VWO vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 26.8%
- VWO vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- VWO vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- VWO vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 24.3%
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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