ETF comparison
FXI vs VXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
iShares China Large-Cap ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FXI and VXUS would leave roughly 3.8% 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
VXUS is 68 bps cheaper than FXI. On a $100,000 position that's about $680/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In FXI | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 8.93% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 9.36% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 8.85% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 4 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 6.16% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 5 | MEITUAN | 5.13% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 6 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 5.09% | 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
0 totalEvery FXI position is also held by VXUS.
Only in VXUS
8,686 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
- Shell PLC 0.58%
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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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