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DISV vs EWJ

Both International Developed.

Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF · iShares MSCI Japan ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

DISV unmatched 96.5% Shared 0.0% EWJ unmatched 99.0%

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 DISV only
1,601 positions
Shared
0 positions
In EWJ only
178 positions

Side by side

DISV

Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF

Dimensional · International Developed

76 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.42%
Net assets
$5.18B
TTM yield
2.69%
Top-10 conc.
6.5%
EWJ

iShares MSCI Japan ETF

iShares · International Developed

72 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$23.53B
TTM yield
3.79%
Top-10 conc.
28.2%

Sub-score comparison

58
Cost
51
78
Tax efficiency
75
88
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
74
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Tracking quality
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DISV sub-score EWJ

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

Cost difference

DISV is 7 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/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 DISV vs EWJ.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in DISV

1,601 total
  • Swiss Prime Site AG 0.89%
  • CARREFOUR SA 0.76%
  • SYENSQO NV 0.70%
  • Fresenius Medical Care AG 0.67%
  • KINGFISHER PLC 0.62%
  • ALSTOM SA 0.59%
  • Evonik Industries AG 0.57%
  • VALEO SE 0.57%
  • Adecco Group AG 0.56%
  • LION FINANCE GROUP PLC 0.55%

Only in EWJ

178 total
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 4.05%
  • TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 3.43%
  • SoftBank Group Corp. 3.34%
  • Tokyo Electron Limited 2.87%
  • Hitachi, Ltd. 2.84%
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 2.56%
  • Sony Group Corporation 2.54%
  • ADVANTEST CORPORATION 2.39%
  • Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 2.14%
  • Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 2.01%

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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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