ETF comparison
AVEM vs EWT
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF
Holdings overlap
72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and EWT would leave roughly 16.0% 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
AVEM is 26 bps cheaper than EWT. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for EWT.
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 EWT.
Top shared holdings
72 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In EWT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.72% | 20.31% | 5.72% |
| 2 | MediaTek Inc | 0.94% | 6.05% | 0.94% |
| 3 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.66% | 3.35% | 0.66% |
| 4 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.65% | 1.94% | 0.65% |
| 5 | Chroma ATE Inc | 0.58% | 1.13% | 0.58% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.54% | 3.97% | 0.54% |
| 7 | Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.47% | 1.67% | 0.47% |
| 8 | Unimicron Technology Corp | 0.44% | 2.20% | 0.44% |
| 9 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.38% | 1.35% | 0.38% |
| 10 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.38% | 1.47% | 0.38% |
| 11 | Zhen Ding Technology Holding Ltd | 0.32% | 1.02% | 0.32% |
| 12 | Yuanta Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.30% | 1.15% | 0.30% |
Only in AVEM
3,915 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.18%
- SK hynix Inc 5.57%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.14%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.64%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.92%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- LG Electronics Inc 0.65%
- Bank of China Ltd 0.55%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.51%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.51%
Only in EWT
6 total- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 2.62%
- PharmaEssentia Corp. 0.99%
- HonPrecision Inc 0.73%
- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 0.72%
- CALIWAY BIOPHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD. 0.28%
- YA HSIN INDUSTRIAL CO LTD 0.00%
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- AVEM vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 9.0%
- AVEM vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 8.7%
- AVEM vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 8.6%
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- EWT vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 13.3%
- EWT vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 7.4%
- EWT vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 7.1%
- EWT vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 2.7%
- EWT vs ASHR · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF 0.0%
- EWT vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 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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