ETF comparison
AAXJ vs INDA
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · iShares MSCI India ETF
Holdings overlap
163 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and INDA would leave roughly 13.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
INDA is 11 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for AAXJ.
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 AAXJ vs INDA.
Top shared holdings
163 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In INDA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.88% | 7.33% | 0.88% |
| 2 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.88% | 6.17% | 0.88% |
| 3 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.67% | 5.28% | 0.67% |
| 4 | BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED | 0.48% | 3.51% | 0.48% |
| 5 | INFOSYS LIMITED | 0.39% | 3.14% | 0.39% |
| 6 | MAHINDRA AND MAHINDRA LIMITED | 0.29% | 2.30% | 0.29% |
| 7 | AXIS BANK LIMITED | 0.29% | 2.31% | 0.29% |
| 8 | LARSEN AND TOUBRO LIMITED | 0.27% | 2.09% | 0.27% |
| 9 | BAJAJ FINANCE LIMITED | 0.27% | 2.03% | 0.27% |
| 10 | TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED | 0.22% | 1.74% | 0.22% |
| 11 | KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK LIMITED | 0.21% | 1.65% | 0.21% |
| 12 | State Bank of India | 0.20% | 1.61% | 0.20% |
Only in AAXJ
742 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 16.28%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.78%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.63%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 3.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.70%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.30%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.21%
- AIA Group Limited 1.09%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 1.03%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 0.90%
Only in INDA
2 total- Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corp Ltd 0.02%
- TVS MOTOR COMPANY 0.01%
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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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