ETF comparison
EWJ vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Japan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
178 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and VEA would leave roughly 16.2% 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
VEA 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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
178 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWJ | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.05% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 2 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.87% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 3 | Kioxia Holdings Corporation | 1.49% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 4 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 3.43% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 5 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.39% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 6 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.56% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 7 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 3.34% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 8 | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 2.01% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 9 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.84% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 10 | Sony Group Corporation | 2.54% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 11 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 2.14% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 12 | KEYENCE CORPORATION | 1.87% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
Only in EWJ
0 totalEvery EWJ position is also held by VEA.
Only in VEA
3,684 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
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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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