ETF comparison
EWA vs FNDF
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Australia ETF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWA and FNDF would leave roughly 4.1% 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
FNDF is 25 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for EWA.
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 FNDF.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWA | In FNDF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.69% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 2 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.45% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 3 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 13.76% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 4 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.30% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 6.14% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.89% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | FORTESCUE LTD | 1.89% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.71% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 9 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.51% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.14% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.31% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | SOUTH32 LIMITED | 1.08% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in EWA
15 total- EVOLUTION MINING LIMITED 1.24%
- LYNAS RARE EARTHS LIMITED 0.87%
- SIGMA HEALTHCARE LIMITED 0.76%
- WASHINGTON H. SOUL PATTINSON AND COMPANY LIMITED 0.74%
- XERO LIMITED 0.64%
- THE LOTTERY CORPORATION LIMITED 0.60%
- Vicinity Centres 0.49%
- CAR GROUP LIMITED 0.47%
- ASX LIMITED 0.45%
- SGH LIMITED 0.42%
Only in FNDF
856 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.52%
- Shell PLC 2.19%
- TotalEnergies SE 1.69%
- SK hynix Inc 1.37%
- Glencore PLC 1.22%
- BP PLC 1.08%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.89%
- Roche Holding AG 0.82%
- Rio Tinto PLC 0.80%
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- EWA vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 3.4%
- EWA vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 3.4%
- EWA vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 3.3%
- EWA vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 3.1%
- EWA vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 3.0%
- EWA vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 1.3%
More comparisons with FNDF
- FNDF vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 4.1%
- FNDF vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 3.3%
- FNDF vs EWP · iShares MSCI Spain ETF 2.7%
- FNDF vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 2.5%
- FNDF vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 2.4%
- FNDF vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 1.2%
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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