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AVDV vs EWJ

Both International Developed.

Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF · iShares MSCI Japan ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.2 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDV and EWJ would leave roughly 0.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

AVDV unmatched 97.7% Shared 0.2% EWJ unmatched 99.6%

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.

In AVDV only
1,706 positions
Shared
1 positions
In EWJ only
167 positions

Side by side

AVDV

Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF

Avantis · International Developed

81 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.36%
Net assets
$19.67B
TTM yield
3.30%
Top-10 conc.
6.6%
EWJ

iShares MSCI Japan ETF

iShares · International Developed

71 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$23.40B
TTM yield
3.94%
Top-10 conc.
30.1%

Sub-score comparison

64
Cost
51
76
Tax efficiency
75
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
71
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Tracking quality
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AVDV sub-score EWJ

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

AVDV is 13 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for EWJ.

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 AVDV vs EWJ.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In AVDV In EWJ Overlap
1 Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd 0.27% 0.19% 0.19%

Only in AVDV

1,706 total
  • AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG 1.09%
  • Perseus Mining Ltd 0.69%
  • Regis Resources Ltd 0.65%
  • B2Gold Corp 0.64%
  • Whitbread PLC 0.63%
  • Coeur Mining Inc 0.62%
  • Lion Finance Group PLC 0.60%
  • Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd 0.57%
  • Burberry Group PLC 0.56%
  • OceanaGold Corp 0.55%

Only in EWJ

167 total
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 4.62%
  • TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 3.53%
  • Tokyo Electron Limited 2.98%
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 2.96%
  • ADVANTEST CORPORATION 2.91%
  • Hitachi, Ltd. 2.85%
  • Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. 2.85%
  • Sony Group Corporation 2.74%
  • Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 2.39%
  • SoftBank Group Corp. 2.27%

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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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