ETF comparison
DFAI vs EWJ
Both International Developed.
Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF · iShares MSCI Japan ETF
Holdings overlap
166 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAI and EWJ would leave roughly 16.9% 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
DFAI is 31 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for EWJ.
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 DFAI vs EWJ.
Top shared holdings
166 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAI | In EWJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.76% | 4.05% | 0.76% |
| 2 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.63% | 3.43% | 0.63% |
| 3 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 0.57% | 2.87% | 0.57% |
| 4 | Sony Group Corporation | 0.54% | 2.54% | 0.54% |
| 5 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 0.54% | 2.39% | 0.54% |
| 6 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 0.46% | 2.84% | 0.46% |
| 7 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 0.39% | 2.56% | 0.39% |
| 8 | Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. | 0.38% | 1.80% | 0.38% |
| 9 | Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | 0.36% | 1.56% | 0.36% |
| 10 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 0.34% | 2.14% | 0.34% |
| 11 | Fujikura Ltd. | 0.31% | 0.86% | 0.31% |
| 12 | FAST RETAILING CO., LTD. | 0.29% | 1.89% | 0.29% |
Only in DFAI
3,508 total- ASML Holding N.V. 1.63%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.16%
- Roche Holding AG 1.05%
- SHELL PLC 1.01%
- Nestle S.A. 0.84%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.81%
- Novartis AG 0.67%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 0.62%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.59%
- Allianz SE 0.59%
Only in EWJ
12 total- SoftBank Group Corp. 3.34%
- ORIX CORPORATION 0.87%
- JAPAN POST BANK Co.,Ltd. 0.66%
- KYOCERA CORPORATION 0.54%
- Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. 0.27%
- Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha 0.26%
- Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. 0.23%
- Mitsubishi HC Capital Inc. 0.14%
- TOPPAN Holdings Inc. 0.13%
- Nippon Building Fund Inc. 0.12%
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- DFAI vs FEZ · State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF 13.9%
- DFAI vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 13.3%
- DFAI vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 13.0%
- DFAI vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 10.7%
More comparisons with EWJ
- EWJ vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 16.2%
- EWJ vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 11.9%
- EWJ vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 11.8%
- EWJ vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 11.6%
- EWJ vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 11.4%
- EWJ vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 11.0%
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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