ETF comparison
EWH vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
24 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWH and SPDW would leave roughly 1.2% 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 EWH. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/yr more in fees for EWH.
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 EWH vs SPDW.
Top shared holdings
24 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWH | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AIA Group Limited | 22.85% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 2 | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited | 11.19% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 3 | TECHTRONIC INDUSTRIES COMPANY LIMITED | 4.34% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | SUN HUNG KAI PROPERTIES LIMITED | 4.47% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | CK HUTCHISON HOLDINGS LIMITED | 6.01% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | BOC HONG KONG (HOLDINGS) LIMITED | 5.05% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | CLP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 4.07% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | HONGKONG LAND HOLDINGS LIMITED | 1.68% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Link Real Estate Investment Trust | 3.50% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Sino Land Company Limited | 1.58% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | CK ASSET HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.03% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | JARDINE MATHESON HOLDINGS LIMITED | 2.31% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in EWH
3 total- WH GROUP LIMITED 2.54%
- SITC International Holdings Co Ltd 1.74%
- BNP Paribas 1.49%
Only in SPDW
2,404 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%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Novartis AG 0.86%
- Nestle SA 0.80%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
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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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