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EWJ vs VGK

Both International Developed.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and VGK would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWJ unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% VGK unmatched 97.8%

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.

In EWJ only
178 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VGK only
1,228 positions

Side by side

EWJ

iShares MSCI Japan ETF

iShares · International Developed

72 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$23.53B
TTM yield
3.79%
Top-10 conc.
28.2%
VGK

Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF

Vanguard · International Developed

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$37.17B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
2.99%
Top-10 conc.
18.5%

Sub-score comparison

51
Cost
94
75
Tax efficiency
77
100
Liquidity
100
74
Concentration
88
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Tracking quality
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EWJ sub-score VGK

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VGK is 43 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/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 VGK.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 VGK

1,228 total
  • ASML Holding NV 3.95%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 2.27%
  • Roche Holding AG 1.91%
  • Novartis AG 1.81%
  • Nestle SA 1.60%
  • AstraZeneca PLC 1.59%
  • Siemens AG 1.49%
  • Banco Santander SA 1.28%
  • Allianz SE 1.18%
  • SAP SE 1.17%

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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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