ETF comparison
AVEM vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
1,397 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and SPEM would leave roughly 45.3% 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
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPEM is 26 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 SPEM.
Top shared holdings
1,397 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.72% | 14.65% | 5.72% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.64% | 2.74% | 1.64% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 0.94% | 1.82% | 0.94% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.92% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 5 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.66% | 0.93% | 0.66% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.54% | 1.13% | 0.54% |
| 7 | ICICI Bank Ltd | 0.50% | 0.71% | 0.50% |
| 8 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.51% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 9 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.49% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 10 | Unimicron Technology Corp | 0.44% | 0.50% | 0.44% |
| 11 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.43% | 0.83% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Reliance Industries Ltd | 0.43% | 0.80% | 0.43% |
Only in AVEM
2,590 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.18%
- SK hynix Inc 5.57%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.14%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- LG Electronics Inc 0.65%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.65%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.51%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.50%
- NetEase Inc 0.49%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.49%
Only in SPEM
1,518 total- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.79%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.82%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.67%
- NetEase Inc 0.42%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.40%
- Axis Bank Ltd 0.33%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.28%
- Baidu Inc 0.27%
- Gold Fields Ltd 0.27%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.24%
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- 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%
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- SPEM vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 39.9%
- SPEM vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 27.8%
- SPEM vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 22.0%
- SPEM vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 21.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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