ETF comparison
AVES vs EWY
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Holdings overlap
32 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and EWY would leave roughly 9.8% 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 23 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for EWY.
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 EWY.
Top shared holdings
32 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In EWY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hyundai Motor Co | 1.35% | 2.43% | 1.35% |
| 2 | Kia Corp | 0.99% | 1.01% | 0.99% |
| 3 | LG Electronics Inc | 1.58% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 4 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.93% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 5 | Woori Financial Group Inc | 0.65% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 6 | LG Chem Ltd | 0.49% | 0.53% | 0.49% |
| 7 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.48% | 1.01% | 0.48% |
| 8 | HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co Ltd | 0.43% | 0.52% | 0.43% |
| 9 | HD Hyundai Co Ltd | 0.55% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 10 | Hyundai Rotem Co Ltd | 0.35% | 0.45% | 0.35% |
| 11 | Korea Investment Holdings Co Ltd | 0.67% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 12 | HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd | 0.30% | 0.72% | 0.30% |
Only in AVES
1,850 total- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.48%
- LG Innotek Co Ltd 1.39%
- Innolux Corp 1.29%
- Unimicron Technology Corp 1.18%
- Samsung E&A Co Ltd 1.02%
- Vale SA 1.02%
- CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd 1.00%
- Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.91%
- Zhen Ding Technology Holding Ltd 0.91%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.77%
Only in EWY
49 total- SK hynix Inc. 30.85%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 23.88%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 3.08%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 1.40%
- HYUNDAI MOBIS CO.,LTD 1.22%
- DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. 1.21%
- SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD. 1.14%
- SHINHAN FINANCIAL GROUP CO.,LTD 1.03%
- SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION 0.99%
- NAVER Corporation 0.85%
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- EWY vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 2.0%
- EWY vs ASHR · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF 0.0%
- EWY vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 0.0%
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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