ETF comparison
AVIV vs EWJ
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF · iShares MSCI Japan ETF
Holdings overlap
72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVIV and EWJ would leave roughly 11.4% 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
AVIV is 24 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for EWJ.
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Top shared holdings
72 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVIV | In EWJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SoftBank Group Corp | 0.78% | 3.34% | 0.78% |
| 2 | Tokio Marine Holdings Inc | 0.52% | 1.56% | 0.52% |
| 3 | Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd | 0.46% | 1.05% | 0.46% |
| 4 | Panasonic Holdings Corp | 0.43% | 1.03% | 0.43% |
| 5 | TDK Corp | 0.43% | 0.96% | 0.43% |
| 6 | Daiichi Life Group Inc | 0.36% | 0.69% | 0.36% |
| 7 | Komatsu Ltd | 0.35% | 0.74% | 0.35% |
| 8 | KDDI Corp | 0.34% | 0.96% | 0.34% |
| 9 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd | 0.34% | 1.45% | 0.34% |
| 10 | ENEOS Holdings Inc | 0.31% | 0.42% | 0.31% |
| 11 | MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc | 0.29% | 0.66% | 0.29% |
| 12 | Astellas Pharma Inc | 0.29% | 0.49% | 0.29% |
Only in AVIV
580 total- Shell PLC 2.16%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 2.10%
- Roche Holding AG 1.71%
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 1.54%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.47%
- BP PLC 1.34%
- GSK PLC 1.12%
- Vinci SA 1.07%
- Zurich Insurance Group AG 1.06%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 1.04%
Only in EWJ
106 total- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 4.05%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 3.43%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 2.87%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 2.56%
- Sony Group Corporation 2.54%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 2.39%
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 2.14%
- Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 2.01%
- Mitsubishi Corporation 1.95%
- FAST RETAILING CO., LTD. 1.89%
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- AVIV vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 8.5%
- AVIV vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 8.1%
- AVIV vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 7.2%
- AVIV vs EWG · iShares MSCI Germany ETF 7.2%
- AVIV vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 6.8%
More comparisons with EWJ
- EWJ vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 11.0%
- EWJ vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 4.5%
- EWJ vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 2.7%
- EWJ vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 1.0%
- EWJ vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 0.0%
- EWJ vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 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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