ETF comparison
EWG vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Germany ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWG and VXUS would leave roughly 4.4% 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 44 bps cheaper than EWG. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/yr more in fees for EWG.
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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWG | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 11.97% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 2 | Allianz SE | 8.47% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 3 | SAP SE | 9.49% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 4 | Siemens Energy AG | 7.37% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 5 | Deutsche Telekom AG | 6.21% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | Infineon Technologies AG | 6.22% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Muenchen | 3.45% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft | 2.96% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | Deutsche Post AG | 2.75% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft | 3.48% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | Deutsche Boerse Aktiengesellschaft | 2.73% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | Bayer Aktiengesellschaft | 2.10% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in EWG
4 total- Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft 0.37%
- Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 0.31%
- Porsche Automobil Holding SE 0.29%
- Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft 0.24%
Only in VXUS
8,686 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%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
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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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