ETF comparison
EWC vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Canada ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
84 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWC and IXUS would leave roughly 7.2% 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
IXUS is 43 bps cheaper than EWC. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for EWC.
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 EWC vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
84 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWC | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 8.71% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 2 | THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK | 6.28% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 3 | SHOPIFY INC. | 4.74% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 4 | BANK OF MONTREAL | 3.74% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 5 | Enbridge Inc. | 3.89% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 6 | THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA | 3.22% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 7 | CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE | 3.30% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 8 | CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED | 3.08% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 9 | Brookfield Corporation | 3.05% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 10 | Suncor Energy Inc. | 2.44% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Canadien Pacifique Kansas City Limitee | 2.60% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 2.09% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
Only in EWC
0 totalEvery EWC position is also held by IXUS.
Only in IXUS
4,405 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
- Nestle S.A. 0.60%
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- EWC vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 1.9%
- EWC vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 0.9%
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 7.0%
- IXUS vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 6.8%
- IXUS vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 6.0%
- IXUS vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 5.6%
- IXUS vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 5.4%
- IXUS vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 5.3%
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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