ETF comparison
MCHI vs VEA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
iShares MSCI China ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MCHI and VEA would leave roughly 0.1% 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 56 bps cheaper than MCHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $560/yr more in fees for MCHI.
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 MCHI vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In MCHI | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lenovo Group Limited | 0.94% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | Zijin Gold International Co Ltd | 0.13% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 3 | SHENZHOU INTERNATIONAL GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 0.19% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 4 | AAC TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS INC. | 0.17% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 5 | MMG Limited | 0.18% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 6 | CHOW TAI FOOK JEWELLERY GROUP LIMITED | 0.10% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 7 | BOC AVIATION LIMITED | 0.08% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | ORIENT OVERSEAS (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED | 0.09% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in MCHI
568 total- Tencent Holdings Limited 13.21%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 10.14%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 3.97%
- XIAOMI CORPORATION 2.35%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 2.28%
- INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 2.10%
- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. 1.96%
- MEITUAN 1.84%
- BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 1.80%
- NETEASE, INC. 1.63%
Only in VEA
3,854 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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