ETF comparison
AVDV vs VSS
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
890 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDV and VSS would leave roughly 23.3% 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
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · International Developed
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VSS is 30 bps cheaper than AVDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for AVDV.
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 VSS.
Top shared holdings
890 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDV | In VSS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hudbay Minerals Inc | 0.34% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 2 | South Bow Corp | 0.32% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 3 | NKT A/S | 0.36% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 4 | Eldorado Gold Corp | 0.34% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 5 | AL Sydbank | 0.30% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 6 | Saipem SpA | 0.49% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 7 | Umicore SA | 0.31% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | SSR Mining Inc | 0.40% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 9 | Lion Finance Group PLC | 0.60% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 10 | OceanaGold Corp | 0.55% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 11 | Capital Power Corp | 0.15% | 0.21% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Aurubis AG | 0.14% | 0.15% | 0.14% |
Only in AVDV
817 total- Whitbread PLC 0.63%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.62%
- Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd 0.57%
- Burberry Group PLC 0.56%
- Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd 0.50%
- Whitehaven Coal Ltd 0.48%
- Johnson Matthey PLC 0.48%
- Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd 0.44%
- Ramelius Resources Ltd 0.40%
- West African Resources Ltd 0.39%
Only in VSS
3,928 total- Aritzia Inc 0.27%
- Storebrand ASA 0.24%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.24%
- Games Workshop Group PLC 0.24%
- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.24%
- Gaztransport Et Technigaz SA 0.23%
- Subsea 7 SA 0.21%
- DPM Metals Inc 0.21%
- Aedifica SA 0.21%
- Nordnet AB publ 0.20%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AVDV
- AVDV vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 15.4%
- AVDV vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 12.3%
- AVDV vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 7.3%
- AVDV vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 7.1%
- AVDV vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 6.5%
- AVDV vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 5.8%
More comparisons with VSS
- VSS vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 21.3%
- VSS vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 18.5%
- VSS vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 15.5%
- VSS vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 14.5%
- VSS vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 7.9%
- VSS vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 7.9%
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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