ETF comparison
EWA vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Australia ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWA and VEA would leave roughly 4.3% 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
VEA is 47 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWA | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.69% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 13.76% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 3 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 6.14% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 4 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.71% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 5 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.30% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 6 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.51% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 7 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.31% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 8 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.45% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | GOODMAN GROUP | 3.22% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 10 | CSL LIMITED | 2.34% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 11 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.89% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.14% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in EWA
0 totalEvery EWA position is also held by VEA.
Only in VEA
3,816 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
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- VEA vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 1.3%
- VEA vs EWH · iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF 1.1%
- VEA vs EWS · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF 1.0%
- VEA vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 0.6%
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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