ETF comparison
EWC vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Canada ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
80 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWC and VXUS would leave roughly 6.4% 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 EWC. On a $100,000 position that's about $450/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
80 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWC | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 8.71% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 2 | THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK | 6.28% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 3 | BANK OF MONTREAL | 3.74% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 4 | Enbridge Inc. | 3.89% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 5 | CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE | 3.30% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA | 3.22% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED | 3.08% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Brookfield Corporation | 3.05% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Suncor Energy Inc. | 2.44% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 10 | Canadien Pacifique Kansas City Limitee | 2.60% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 2.09% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 12 | AGNICO EAGLE MINES LIMITED | 3.00% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
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 VXUS
8,656 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%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
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- VXUS vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 4.7%
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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