ETF comparison
FXI vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
iShares China Large-Cap ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FXI and VWO would leave roughly 14.4% 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
VWO 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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In FXI | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 8.93% | 3.31% | 3.31% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 9.36% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 8.85% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 4 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 6.16% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 5 | MEITUAN | 5.13% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 6 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 5.09% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 7 | NETEASE, INC. | 3.85% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 8 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 3.85% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 9 | BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 3.78% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 10 | BYD COMPANY LIMITED | 3.51% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 11 | JD.COM, INC. | 3.22% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 12 | BAIDU, INC. | 2.36% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
Only in FXI
0 totalEvery FXI position is also held by VWO.
Only in VWO
4,930 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.59%
- Bharti Airtel Ltd 0.55%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.49%
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- VWO vs KWEB · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF 8.9%
- VWO vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 7.8%
- VWO vs EWZ · iShares MSCI Brazil ETF 3.6%
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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