ETF comparison
AVDE vs VWO
International Developed vs International Emerging.
Avantis International Equity ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
6 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDE and VWO 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
VWO is 17 bps cheaper than AVDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for AVDE.
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 AVDE vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
6 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDE | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd | 0.12% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | Valterra Platinum Ltd | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 3 | Mobvista Inc | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| 4 | PAX Global Technology Ltd | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 5 | Yanlord Land Group Ltd | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 6 | Yangzijiang Financial Holding Ltd | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in AVDE
3,323 total- ASML Holding NV 1.32%
- Roche Holding AG 0.93%
- Shell PLC 0.85%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 0.62%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.61%
- UBS Group AG 0.57%
- Allianz SE 0.56%
- Safran SA 0.54%
- Novartis AG 0.53%
Only in VWO
4,974 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- 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%
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- AVDE vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 57.0%
- AVDE vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 54.7%
- AVDE vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 50.3%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 0.1%
- VWO vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 0.1%
- VWO vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 0.1%
- VWO vs EWS · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF 0.1%
- VWO vs EFG · iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF 0.1%
- VWO vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 0.0%
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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