ETF comparison
AVEM vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,411 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and VT would leave roughly 9.0% 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
VT is 27 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 VT.
Top shared holdings
2,411 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.72% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 5.57% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.64% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 0.94% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.92% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.54% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.66% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.43% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.51% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.49% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Meituan | 0.13% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Xiaomi Corp | 0.12% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in AVEM
1,576 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.18%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.14%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.51%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.50%
- NetEase Inc 0.49%
- Vale SA 0.45%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.44%
- Gold Fields Ltd 0.32%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.31%
Only in VT
7,639 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.80%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AVEM
- AVEM vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 8.7%
- AVEM vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 8.6%
- AVEM vs FLIN · Franklin FTSE India ETF 8.1%
- AVEM vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 7.3%
- AVEM vs FRDM · Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF 6.7%
- AVEM vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 4.4%
More comparisons with VT
- VT vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 8.8%
- VT vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 8.6%
- VT vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 8.0%
- VT vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 7.9%
- VT vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 7.7%
- VT vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 7.0%
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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