ETF comparison
AVES vs EWY
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and EWY would leave roughly 10.4% 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
AVES is 23 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/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 AVES vs EWY.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In EWY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 1.22% | 1.43% | 1.22% |
| 2 | LG Electronics Inc | 1.23% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 3 | Kia Corp | 0.86% | 1.14% | 0.86% |
| 4 | Woori Financial Group Inc | 0.84% | 0.96% | 0.84% |
| 5 | HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co Ltd | 0.66% | 0.69% | 0.66% |
| 6 | Korean Air Lines Co Ltd | 0.51% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 7 | HD Hyundai Co Ltd | 0.48% | 0.51% | 0.48% |
| 8 | Korea Investment Holdings Co Ltd | 0.60% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 9 | S-Oil Corp | 0.48% | 0.61% | 0.48% |
| 10 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.44% | 1.32% | 0.44% |
| 11 | Meritz Financial Group Inc | 0.43% | 0.59% | 0.43% |
| 12 | HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd | 0.40% | 0.63% | 0.40% |
Only in AVES
1,917 total- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.41%
- Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd 1.20%
- Innolux Corp 1.19%
- Vale SA 0.97%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.94%
- Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.91%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.91%
- Wistron Corp 0.90%
- Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd 0.80%
- Zhen Ding Technology Holding Ltd 0.79%
Only in EWY
47 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 22.13%
- SK hynix Inc. 20.96%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 3.17%
- SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 2.96%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 2.10%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. 1.66%
- SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD. 1.29%
- DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. 1.29%
- NAVER Corporation 1.22%
- SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION 1.17%
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- AVES vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 6.5%
- AVES vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 6.5%
- AVES vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 4.7%
More comparisons with EWY
- 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%
- EWY vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 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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