ETF comparison
AVES vs EEM
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
310 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and EEM would leave roughly 16.8% 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
AVES is 36 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $360/yr more in fees for EEM.
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 AVES vs EEM.
Top shared holdings
310 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In EEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hyundai Motor Co | 1.35% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 2 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.77% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 3 | Elite Material Co Ltd | 0.55% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 4 | Unimicron Technology Corp | 1.18% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 5 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 1.00% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | Kuwait Finance House KSCP | 0.23% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.91% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Larsen & Toubro Ltd | 0.22% | 0.23% | 0.22% |
| 9 | Bajaj Finance Ltd | 0.23% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 10 | Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV | 0.52% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 11 | Kia Corp | 0.99% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.73% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
Only in AVES
1,572 total- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.48%
- LG Innotek Co Ltd 1.39%
- Samsung E&A Co Ltd 1.02%
- Vale SA 1.02%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.73%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.72%
- Powertech Technology Inc 0.68%
- Compeq Manufacturing Co Ltd 0.58%
- Ardentec Corp 0.56%
- Sigurd Microelectronics Corp 0.47%
Only in EEM
912 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 14.26%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.76%
- SK hynix Inc. 6.64%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.71%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.08%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.62%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.17%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.90%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.85%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.81%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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