ETF comparison
EWC vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Canada ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
82 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWC and SPDW would leave roughly 9.2% 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
SPDW is 47 bps cheaper than EWC. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/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 SPDW.
Top shared holdings
82 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWC | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 8.71% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 2 | THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK | 6.28% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 3 | SHOPIFY INC. | 4.74% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 4 | BANK OF MONTREAL | 3.74% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 5 | Enbridge Inc. | 3.89% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 6 | THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA | 3.22% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 7 | CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE | 3.30% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | Brookfield Corporation | 3.05% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 9 | AGNICO EAGLE MINES LIMITED | 3.00% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 10 | CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED | 3.08% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 11 | Canadien Pacifique Kansas City Limitee | 2.60% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 12 | Canadian National Railway Company | 2.02% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in EWC
2 total- RB Global, Inc. 0.64%
- CONSTELLATION SOFTWARE INC CANADA 0.00%
Only in SPDW
2,346 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- ASML Holding NV 2.28%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Roche Holding AG 0.86%
- Novartis AG 0.86%
- Nestle SA 0.80%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
- Siemens AG 0.70%
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- EWC vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 8.4%
- EWC vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 7.9%
- EWC vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 7.2%
- EWC vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 6.4%
More comparisons with SPDW
- SPDW vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 9.1%
- SPDW vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 6.8%
- SPDW vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 6.7%
- SPDW vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 6.5%
- SPDW vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 6.3%
- SPDW vs EWG · iShares MSCI Germany ETF 5.7%
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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