ETF comparison
ESGE vs EWT
Both International Emerging.
Holdings overlap
30 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and EWT would leave roughly 23.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ESGE is 34 bps cheaper than EWT. On a $100,000 position that's about $340/yr more in fees for EWT.
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 ESGE vs EWT.
Top shared holdings
30 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In EWT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 13.61% | 21.93% | 13.61% |
| 2 | Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd | 1.13% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 3 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.92% | 4.47% | 0.92% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 0.72% | 4.62% | 0.72% |
| 5 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.66% | 1.39% | 0.66% |
| 6 | First Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.63% | 0.78% | 0.63% |
| 7 | E.Sun Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.58% | 1.05% | 0.58% |
| 8 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.58% | 4.60% | 0.58% |
| 9 | Far EasTone Telecommunications Co Ltd | 0.47% | 0.55% | 0.47% |
| 10 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.39% | 1.40% | 0.39% |
| 11 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 0.36% | 2.43% | 0.36% |
| 12 | SinoPac Financial Holdings Co Ltd | 0.30% | 1.03% | 0.30% |
Only in ESGE
266 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.28%
- SK hynix Inc 3.72%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.56%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.51%
- China Construction Bank Corp 1.23%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 1.13%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.00%
- Al Rajhi Bank 0.88%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.84%
- Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd 0.77%
Only in EWT
54 total- ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. 1.76%
- UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. 1.67%
- QUANTA COMPUTER INC. 1.50%
- Wiwynn Corporation 1.26%
- NAN YA PLASTICS CORPORATION 1.19%
- YAGEO CORPORATION 1.17%
- CHROMA ATE INC. 1.12%
- Mega Financial Holding Company Ltd. 0.97%
- KING YUAN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 0.86%
- KGI Financial Holding Co., Ltd. 0.84%
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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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