ETF comparison
EWC vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Canada ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
80 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWC and VEA would leave roughly 8.7% 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 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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
80 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWC | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 8.71% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 2 | THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK | 6.28% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 3 | BANK OF MONTREAL | 3.74% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 4 | Enbridge Inc. | 3.89% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 5 | THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA | 3.22% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE | 3.30% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 7 | Brookfield Corporation | 3.05% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 8 | CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED | 3.08% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 9 | AGNICO EAGLE MINES LIMITED | 3.00% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Canadien Pacifique Kansas City Limitee | 2.60% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 11 | TC Energy Corporation | 2.25% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 2.09% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in EWC
4 total- ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC. 0.46%
- CCL INDUSTRIES INC. 0.31%
- CANADIAN UTILITIES LIMITED 0.16%
- EMPIRE COMPANY LIMITED 0.15%
Only in VEA
3,782 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%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Siemens AG 0.73%
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- EWC vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 6.4%
- EWC vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 4.4%
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More comparisons with VEA
- VEA vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 8.2%
- VEA vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 7.7%
- VEA vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 7.7%
- VEA vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 7.3%
- VEA vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 6.6%
- VEA vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 6.5%
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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