ETF comparison
AVEM vs EMXC
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF
Holdings overlap
540 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and EMXC would leave roughly 42.1% 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
EMXC is 8 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for AVEM.
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 AVEM vs EMXC.
Top shared holdings
540 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In EMXC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.72% | 18.92% | 5.72% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 5.57% | 6.83% | 5.57% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 0.94% | 1.82% | 0.94% |
| 4 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.66% | 0.98% | 0.66% |
| 5 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.54% | 1.15% | 0.54% |
| 6 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.49% | 0.58% | 0.49% |
| 7 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.65% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.43% | 0.87% | 0.43% |
| 9 | Unimicron Technology Corp | 0.44% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 10 | Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.47% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 11 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.36% | 0.60% | 0.36% |
| 12 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.38% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
Only in AVEM
3,447 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.18%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.14%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.64%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.92%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- Bank of China Ltd 0.55%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.51%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.51%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.50%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.50%
Only in EMXC
76 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 9.02%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.10%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.82%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.70%
- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 0.63%
- VALE S.A. 0.54%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.45%
- Gold Fields Limited 0.42%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.42%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.39%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AVEM
- AVEM vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 37.6%
- AVEM vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 35.1%
- AVEM vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 34.9%
- AVEM vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 33.6%
- AVEM vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 23.2%
- AVEM vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 22.6%
More comparisons with EMXC
- EMXC vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 34.4%
- EMXC vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 34.0%
- EMXC vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 33.9%
- EMXC vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 25.0%
- EMXC vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 22.0%
- EMXC vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 20.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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