ETF comparison
EWJ vs HEDJ
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Japan ETF · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and HEDJ would leave roughly 0.0% 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
EWJ 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 EWJ vs HEDJ.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in EWJ
178 total- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 4.05%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 3.43%
- SoftBank Group Corp. 3.34%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 2.87%
- Hitachi, Ltd. 2.84%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 2.56%
- Sony Group Corporation 2.54%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 2.39%
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 2.14%
- Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 2.01%
Only in HEDJ
130 total- ASML HOLDING NV 7.50%
- BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA SA 6.34%
- BANCO SANTANDER SA 4.84%
- SIEMENS AG 4.19%
- LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE 3.96%
- SANOFI SA 3.49%
- DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG 3.17%
- L'OREAL SA 3.05%
- ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV SA/NV 2.62%
- BASF SE 1.94%
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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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