ETF comparison
BBAX vs VEA
Both International Developed.
JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BBAX and VEA would leave roughly 6.4% 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
VEA is 16 bps cheaper than BBAX. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for BBAX.
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 BBAX vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In BBAX | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP Group Ltd. | 9.50% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 2 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 9.31% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 3 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd. | 5.23% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 4 | AIA Group Ltd. | 4.69% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 5 | Westpac Banking Corp. | 4.03% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 6 | National Australia Bank Ltd. | 3.94% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | ANZ Group Holdings Ltd. | 3.49% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Wesfarmers Ltd. | 3.16% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 9 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd. | 3.29% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 10 | Macquarie Group Ltd. | 2.87% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. | 2.77% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 12 | Rio Tinto Ltd. | 1.97% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in BBAX
5 total- Wuxi Biologics Cayman, Inc. 0.80%
- Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd. 0.27%
- HKT Trust & HKT Ltd. 0.27%
- 3SBio, Inc. 0.18%
- N/A 0.00%
Only in VEA
3,775 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
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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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