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FXI vs VT

International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).

iShares China Large-Cap ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
1.4 %

50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FXI and VT would leave roughly 1.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

FXI unmatched 97.5% Shared 1.4% VT unmatched 97.7%

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.

In FXI only
0 positions
Shared
50 positions
In VT only
10,000 positions

Side by side

FXI

iShares China Large-Cap ETF

iShares · International Emerging

51 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.73%
Net assets
$3.93B
TTM yield
2.10%
Top-10 conc.
58.5%
VT

Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Global Stock (incl. US)

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$101.18B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
1.55%
Top-10 conc.
21.5%

Sub-score comparison

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Cost
94
76
Tax efficiency
85
82
Liquidity
100
31
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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FXI sub-score VT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VT is 67 bps cheaper than FXI. On a $100,000 position that's about $670/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 VT.

Top shared holdings

50 shared in total
# Holding In FXI In VT Overlap
1 Tencent Holdings Limited 8.93% 0.33% 0.33%
2 Alibaba Group Holding Limited 9.36% 0.24% 0.24%
3 CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 8.85% 0.09% 0.09%
4 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 6.16% 0.07% 0.07%
5 MEITUAN 5.13% 0.06% 0.06%
6 XIAOMI CORPORATION 5.09% 0.05% 0.05%
7 NETEASE, INC. 3.85% 0.04% 0.04%
8 Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. 3.85% 0.04% 0.04%
9 BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 3.78% 0.04% 0.04%
10 BYD COMPANY LIMITED 3.51% 0.04% 0.04%
11 JD.COM, INC. 3.22% 0.03% 0.03%
12 BAIDU, INC. 2.36% 0.03% 0.03%

Only in FXI

0 total

Every FXI position is also held by VT.

Only in VT

10,000 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
  • Apple Inc 3.87%
  • Microsoft Corp 2.99%
  • Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.83%
  • Broadcom Inc 1.57%
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.44%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%

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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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