ETF comparison
AVEM vs VXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,373 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and VXUS would leave roughly 22.4% 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
VXUS is 28 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
2,373 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.11% | 4.10% | 4.10% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 7.82% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.51% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 1.11% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.77% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.76% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.45% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.45% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.70% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Bharti Airtel Ltd | 0.20% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | Meituan | 0.12% | 0.15% | 0.12% |
Only in AVEM
1,540 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.65%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- NetEase Inc 0.49%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.46%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.43%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.38%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.34%
Only in VXUS
6,363 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
- Shell PLC 0.58%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.58%
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- AVEM vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 13.5%
- AVEM vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 9.0%
- AVEM vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 8.4%
- AVEM vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 8.3%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 22.0%
- VXUS vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 20.9%
- VXUS vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 20.7%
- VXUS vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 20.7%
- VXUS vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 18.3%
- VXUS vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 16.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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