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EWA vs VGK

Both International Developed.

iShares MSCI Australia ETF · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWA unmatched 99.4% Shared 0.0% VGK unmatched 97.8%

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 VGK only
1,228 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%
VGK

Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF

Vanguard · International Developed

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$37.17B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
2.98%
Top-10 conc.
18.5%

Sub-score comparison

50
Cost
94
77
Tax efficiency
77
60
Liquidity
100
21
Concentration
88
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Tracking quality
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EWA sub-score VGK

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

Cost difference

VGK is 44 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/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 VGK.

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 VGK

1,228 total
  • ASML Holding NV 3.95%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 2.27%
  • Roche Holding AG 1.91%
  • Novartis AG 1.81%
  • Nestle SA 1.60%
  • AstraZeneca PLC 1.59%
  • Siemens AG 1.49%
  • Banco Santander SA 1.28%
  • Allianz SE 1.18%
  • SAP SE 1.17%

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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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