ETF comparison
EWJ vs SCZ
Both International Developed.
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and SCZ would leave roughly 1.0% 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
SCZ is 9 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/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 SCZ.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWJ | In SCZ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shimadzu Corporation | 0.11% | 0.16% | 0.11% |
| 2 | Sony Financial Group Inc. | 0.10% | 0.15% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. | 0.10% | 0.16% | 0.10% |
| 4 | TOKYU CORPORATION | 0.10% | 0.15% | 0.10% |
| 5 | MatsukiyoCocokara & Co. | 0.09% | 0.14% | 0.09% |
| 6 | TIS Inc. | 0.09% | 0.13% | 0.09% |
| 7 | SYSMEX CORPORATION | 0.09% | 0.13% | 0.09% |
| 8 | M3, Inc. | 0.08% | 0.12% | 0.08% |
| 9 | MonotaRO Co Ltd | 0.06% | 0.08% | 0.06% |
| 10 | TSURUHA HOLDINGS INC. | 0.05% | 0.09% | 0.05% |
| 11 | ZOZO, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.08% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. | 0.05% | 0.07% | 0.05% |
Only in EWJ
165 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 SCZ
2,041 total- DIPLOMA PLC 0.37%
- BLUESCOPE STEEL LIMITED 0.28%
- BEAZLEY PLC 0.28%
- KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION 0.28%
- IMI PLC 0.27%
- WEIR GROUP PLC(THE) 0.26%
- Niterra Co., Ltd. 0.24%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.24%
- STOREBRAND ASA 0.24%
- Games Workshop Group PLC 0.24%
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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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