ETF comparison
AVES vs EMXC
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF
Holdings overlap
242 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and EMXC would leave roughly 17.7% 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
EMXC is 11 bps cheaper than AVES. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for AVES.
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 EMXC.
Top shared holdings
242 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In EMXC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hyundai Motor Co | 1.35% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 2 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.77% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 3 | Elite Material Co Ltd | 0.55% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 4 | Unimicron Technology Corp | 1.18% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 5 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 1.00% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 6 | Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.91% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 7 | Kia Corp | 0.99% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 8 | Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV | 0.52% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 9 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.48% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 10 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.73% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 11 | Standard Bank Group Ltd | 0.39% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 12 | Kuwait Finance House KSCP | 0.23% | 0.29% | 0.23% |
Only in AVES
1,640 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%
- Kuaishou Technology 0.62%
- Compeq Manufacturing Co Ltd 0.58%
- ANTA Sports Products Ltd 0.57%
Only in EMXC
400 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 17.94%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 9.75%
- SK hynix Inc. 8.35%
- MediaTek Inc. 2.04%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.47%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 1.13%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.07%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.87%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.83%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.75%
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- AVES vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 14.1%
- AVES vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 13.3%
- AVES vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 12.2%
- AVES vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 9.8%
- AVES vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 9.5%
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- EMXC vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 12.2%
- EMXC vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 7.9%
- EMXC vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 6.4%
- EMXC vs EWZ · iShares MSCI Brazil ETF 4.9%
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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