ETF comparison
AAXJ vs EWT
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF
Holdings overlap
83 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and EWT would leave roughly 28.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
EWT is 13 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for AAXJ.
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 AAXJ vs EWT.
Top shared holdings
83 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In EWT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 16.28% | 21.93% | 16.28% |
| 2 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.30% | 4.47% | 1.30% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.21% | 4.62% | 1.21% |
| 4 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.85% | 4.60% | 0.85% |
| 5 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.50% | 2.43% | 0.50% |
| 6 | ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 0.42% | 1.76% | 0.42% |
| 7 | ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 0.36% | 1.71% | 0.36% |
| 8 | UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 0.35% | 1.67% | 0.35% |
| 9 | Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd. | 0.29% | 1.38% | 0.29% |
| 10 | United Microelectronics Corporation | 0.27% | 1.40% | 0.27% |
| 11 | QUANTA COMPUTER INC. | 0.26% | 1.50% | 0.26% |
| 12 | CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 0.26% | 1.81% | 0.26% |
Only in AAXJ
822 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.78%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.63%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 3.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.70%
- AIA Group Limited 1.09%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 1.03%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 0.90%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.88%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.88%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.84%
Only in EWT
1 total- YA HSIN INDUSTRIAL CO LTD 0.00%
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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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