ETF comparison
EWA vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Australia ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWA and VXUS would leave roughly 3.0% 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
VXUS is 45 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $450/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWA | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 13.76% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 2 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 6.14% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 3 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.71% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 4 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.30% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 5 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.69% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 6 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.51% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 7 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.31% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 8 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.89% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.45% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | CSL LIMITED | 2.34% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | GOODMAN GROUP | 3.22% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.14% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in EWA
0 totalEvery EWA position is also held by VXUS.
Only in VXUS
8,690 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
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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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