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EWA vs EWS

Both International Developed.

iShares MSCI Australia ETF · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWA unmatched 99.4% Shared 0.0% EWS unmatched 99.4%

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 EWA only
46 positions
Shared
0 positions
In EWS only
17 positions

Side by side

EWA

iShares MSCI Australia ETF

iShares · International Developed

54 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$1.21B
TTM yield
2.91%
Top-10 conc.
65.0%
EWS

iShares MSCI Singapore ETF

iShares · International Developed

51 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$1.43B
TTM yield
3.82%
Top-10 conc.
80.6%

Sub-score comparison

50
Cost
50
77
Tax efficiency
75
60
Liquidity
63
21
Concentration
0
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Tracking quality
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EWA sub-score EWS

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

Cost difference

Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.50% vs 0.50%).

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 EWA vs EWS.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWA

46 total
  • BHP GROUP LIMITED 15.69%
  • COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 13.76%
  • WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION 6.14%
  • NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED 5.71%
  • ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 5.30%
  • WESFARMERS LIMITED 4.51%
  • MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED 4.31%
  • RIO TINTO LIMITED 3.45%
  • GOODMAN GROUP 3.22%
  • WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD 2.89%

Only in EWS

17 total
  • DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 24.02%
  • OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 20.37%
  • SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 5.25%
  • SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD 4.92%
  • YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.56%
  • WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 4.41%
  • SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD 4.41%
  • UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 4.26%
  • CapitaLand Ascendas REIT 4.21%
  • SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED 4.21%

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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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