ETF comparison
AVEM vs EWY
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Holdings overlap
66 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and EWY would leave roughly 11.1% 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
AVEM is 26 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for EWY.
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 EWY.
Top shared holdings
66 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In EWY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 5.57% | 20.96% | 5.57% |
| 2 | LG Electronics Inc | 0.65% | 1.00% | 0.65% |
| 3 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.46% | 1.43% | 0.46% |
| 4 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.36% | 2.96% | 0.36% |
| 5 | Kia Corp | 0.32% | 1.14% | 0.32% |
| 6 | Hyundai Motor Co | 0.32% | 1.74% | 0.32% |
| 7 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.27% | 1.32% | 0.27% |
| 8 | Woori Financial Group Inc | 0.26% | 0.96% | 0.26% |
| 9 | Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co Ltd | 0.21% | 0.92% | 0.21% |
| 10 | HD Hyundai Co Ltd | 0.16% | 0.51% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd | 0.15% | 0.62% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Doosan Enerbility Co Ltd | 0.14% | 1.29% | 0.14% |
Only in AVEM
3,921 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.18%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.72%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.14%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.64%
- MediaTek Inc 0.94%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.92%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.66%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.65%
- Chroma ATE Inc 0.58%
Only in EWY
12 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 22.13%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 3.17%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 2.10%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. 1.66%
- POSCO Holdings Inc. 0.93%
- KT&G Corporation 0.78%
- SK TELECOM CO., LTD. 0.43%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.43%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.35%
- KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION 0.32%
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- AVEM vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 7.3%
- AVEM vs FRDM · Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF 6.7%
More comparisons with EWY
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- EWY vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 5.7%
- EWY vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 5.3%
- EWY vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 5.1%
- EWY vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 2.0%
- EWY vs ASHR · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares 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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