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ETF comparison

AVES vs EEM

Both International Emerging.

Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
16.4 %

314 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and EEM would leave roughly 16.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

AVES unmatched 82.1% Shared 16.4% EEM unmatched 83.2%

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.

In AVES only
1,634 positions
Shared
314 positions
In EEM only
879 positions

Side by side

AVES

Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF

Avantis · International Emerging

71 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.36%
Net assets
$1.45B
TTM yield
3.73%
Top-10 conc.
10.9%
EEM

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

iShares · International Emerging

61 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.72%
Net assets
$28.25B
TTM yield
1.84%
Top-10 conc.
37.3%

Sub-score comparison

64
Cost
28
73
Tax efficiency
77
64
Liquidity
100
99
Concentration
61
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Tracking quality
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AVES sub-score EEM

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

AVES is 36 bps cheaper than EEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $360/yr more in fees for EEM.

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 AVES vs EEM.

Top shared holdings

314 shared in total
# Holding In AVES In EEM Overlap
1 Elite Material Co Ltd 0.56% 0.40% 0.40%
2 United Microelectronics Corp 0.72% 0.37% 0.37%
3 Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd 1.20% 0.31% 0.31%
4 CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.62% 0.28% 0.28%
5 Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.91% 0.27% 0.27%
6 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.33% 0.24% 0.24%
7 Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.33% 0.23% 0.23%
8 Bajaj Finance Ltd 0.29% 0.22% 0.22%
9 Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV 0.48% 0.22% 0.22%
10 Hana Financial Group Inc 1.22% 0.22% 0.22%
11 Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd 0.44% 0.22% 0.22%
12 Standard Bank Group Ltd 0.46% 0.21% 0.21%

Only in AVES

1,634 total
  • ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.41%
  • Vale SA 0.97%
  • Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.94%
  • KB Financial Group Inc 0.91%
  • United Integrated Services Co Ltd 0.66%
  • LG Innotek Co Ltd 0.56%
  • NetEase Inc 0.45%
  • Sigurd Microelectronics Corp 0.45%
  • Samsung Securities Co Ltd 0.42%
  • Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc 0.40%

Only in EEM

879 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 15.03%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.16%
  • SK hynix Inc. 5.42%
  • Tencent Holdings Limited 2.87%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.94%
  • MediaTek Inc. 1.45%
  • DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.92%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.89%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.83%
  • HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.78%

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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.