ETF comparison
FXI vs IXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
iShares China Large-Cap ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FXI and IXUS would leave roughly 3.7% 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
IXUS is 66 bps cheaper than FXI. On a $100,000 position that's about $660/yr more in fees for FXI.
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 FXI vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In FXI | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 8.93% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 9.36% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 8.85% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 5.09% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 5 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 6.16% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 6 | MEITUAN | 5.13% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 3.85% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 8 | NETEASE, INC. | 3.85% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 9 | BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 3.78% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | BYD COMPANY LIMITED | 3.51% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | JD.COM, INC. | 3.22% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | BAIDU, INC. | 2.36% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in FXI
4 total- Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co.,Ltd 0.13%
- CHINA EVERBRIGHT BANK COMPANY LIMITED 0.10%
- GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc 0.10%
- S.F. Holding Co., Ltd. 0.08%
Only in IXUS
4,443 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
- Nestle S.A. 0.60%
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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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