ETF comparison
AVES vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,043 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and VWO would leave roughly 19.4% 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
VWO is 30 bps cheaper than AVES. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for AVES.
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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
1,043 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elite Material Co Ltd | 0.56% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 2 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.72% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 3 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.62% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 4 | Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV | 0.48% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 5 | Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd | 1.20% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 6 | Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd | 0.33% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 7 | Bajaj Finance Ltd | 0.29% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 8 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.91% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 9 | Larsen & Toubro Ltd | 0.33% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Standard Bank Group Ltd | 0.46% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | TS Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.72% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | National Bank of Kuwait SAKP | 0.23% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in AVES
905 total- LG Electronics Inc 1.23%
- Hana Financial Group Inc 1.22%
- Vale SA 0.97%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.94%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.91%
- Kia Corp 0.86%
- Woori Financial Group Inc 0.84%
- HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co Ltd 0.66%
- Korea Investment Holdings Co Ltd 0.60%
- LG Innotek Co Ltd 0.56%
Only in VWO
3,937 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.66%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AVES
- AVES vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 18.7%
- AVES vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 18.4%
- AVES vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 17.2%
- AVES vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 16.4%
- AVES vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 13.9%
- AVES vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 13.7%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 15.4%
- VWO vs FLIN · Franklin FTSE India ETF 14.7%
- VWO vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 14.4%
- VWO vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 14.3%
- VWO vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 13.2%
- VWO vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 9.8%
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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