ETF comparison
EWJ vs SCHF
Both International Developed.
Holdings overlap
178 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and SCHF would leave roughly 17.3% 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
SCHF is 46 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/yr more in fees for EWJ.
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 SCHF.
Top shared holdings
178 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWJ | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.05% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 2 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 3.43% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 3 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 3.34% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 4 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.87% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 5 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.84% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 6 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.56% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 7 | Sony Group Corporation | 2.54% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 8 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.39% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 9 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 2.14% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi Corporation | 1.95% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 11 | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 2.01% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 12 | KEYENCE CORPORATION | 1.87% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in EWJ
0 totalEvery EWJ position is also held by SCHF.
Only in SCHF
1,297 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 3.32%
- SK hynix Inc 2.81%
- ASML Holding NV 2.10%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.08%
- Roche Holding AG 0.99%
- Novartis AG 0.97%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.93%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Nestle SA 0.88%
- Shell PLC 0.80%
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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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