ETF comparison
EWJ vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Japan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
178 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and VPL would leave roughly 42.8% 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
VPL is 42 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
178 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWJ | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.05% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
| 2 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 3.43% | 1.66% | 1.66% |
| 3 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.56% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 4 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.87% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 5 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.84% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 6 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.39% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 7 | Sony Group Corporation | 2.54% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 8 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 2.14% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 9 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 3.34% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 10 | Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. | 1.80% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 11 | Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | 1.56% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi Corporation | 1.95% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
Only in EWJ
0 totalEvery EWJ position is also held by VPL.
Only in VPL
2,159 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
- SK hynix Inc 5.18%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.77%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.72%
- DBS Group Holdings Ltd 0.96%
- AIA Group Ltd 0.87%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.83%
- Westpac Banking Corp 0.75%
- National Australia Bank Ltd 0.73%
- ANZ Group Holdings Ltd 0.65%
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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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