ETF comparison
AVEM vs VEA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
387 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and VEA would leave roughly 4.4% 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
VEA is 30 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
387 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 5.57% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 2 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.36% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 3 | Hyundai Motor Co | 0.32% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | Doosan Enerbility Co Ltd | 0.14% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA | 0.14% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | Lenovo Group Ltd | 0.38% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Kia Corp | 0.32% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Samsung Life Insurance Co Ltd | 0.08% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.27% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.46% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN SA | 0.18% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | SK Inc | 0.06% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in AVEM
3,600 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 VEA
3,475 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Siemens AG 0.73%
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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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