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AAXJ vs EWZ

Both International Emerging.

iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · iShares MSCI Brazil ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and EWZ would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

AAXJ unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% EWZ unmatched 98.7%

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 AAXJ only
940 positions
Shared
0 positions
In EWZ only
46 positions

Side by side

AAXJ

iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF

iShares · International Emerging

55 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.72%
Net assets
$3.96B
TTM yield
1.45%
Top-10 conc.
42.2%
EWZ

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF

iShares · International Emerging

60 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$8.64B
TTM yield
3.44%
Top-10 conc.
58.7%

Sub-score comparison

28
Cost
41
78
Tax efficiency
74
83
Liquidity
97
54
Concentration
30
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Tracking quality
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AAXJ sub-score EWZ

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

Cost difference

EWZ 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 EWZ.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in AAXJ

940 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 17.21%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.68%
  • SK hynix Inc. 5.93%
  • Tencent Holdings Limited 3.55%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.41%
  • MediaTek Inc. 1.46%
  • DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.12%
  • AIA Group Limited 0.99%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.95%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.94%

Only in EWZ

46 total
  • VALE S.A. 11.50%
  • Nu Holdings Ltd. 8.71%
  • Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 8.48%
  • Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 7.28%
  • Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 6.70%
  • B3 S.A - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcao 3.57%
  • Banco Bradesco S.A. 3.33%
  • AMBEV S.A. 3.19%
  • WEG S.A. 3.05%
  • Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - SABESP 2.87%

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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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