ETF comparison
EWG vs HEDJ
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Germany ETF · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWG and HEDJ would leave roughly 20.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
EWG is 9 bps cheaper than HEDJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for HEDJ.
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 EWG vs HEDJ.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWG | In HEDJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deutsche Telekom AG | 7.14% | 4.66% | 4.66% |
| 2 | Siemens AG | 10.63% | 3.34% | 3.34% |
| 3 | BASF SE | 2.47% | 2.38% | 2.38% |
| 4 | SAP SE | 10.14% | 1.73% | 1.73% |
| 5 | Bayerische Motoren Werke AG | 1.42% | 2.29% | 1.42% |
| 6 | Daimler Truck Holding AG | 1.16% | 1.74% | 1.16% |
| 7 | Hannover Rueck SE | 0.88% | 1.11% | 0.88% |
| 8 | Siemens Healthineers AG | 0.81% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 9 | Heidelberg Materials AG | 1.44% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 10 | Continental AG | 0.46% | 0.52% | 0.46% |
| 11 | Infineon Technologies AG | 3.40% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 12 | Henkel AG & Co KGaA | 0.46% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
Only in EWG
32 total- Allianz SE 8.39%
- Siemens Energy AG 7.26%
- Rheinmetall AG 4.40%
- Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG in Muenchen 4.12%
- Deutsche Bank AG 3.17%
- Deutsche Post AG 2.73%
- E.ON SE 2.52%
- Deutsche Boerse AG 2.49%
- Mercedes-Benz Group AG 2.42%
- RWE AG 1.97%
Only in HEDJ
110 total- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 5.60%
- ASML Holding N.V. 5.32%
- Banco Santander SA 4.61%
- Sanofi SA 4.20%
- LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE 4.11%
- L'Oreal S.A. 3.00%
- Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV 2.33%
- Tenaris SA 1.69%
- Schneider Electric SE 1.63%
- Danone SA 1.54%
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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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