ETF comparison
EWJ vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Japan ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
178 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and VXUS would leave roughly 11.9% 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
VXUS is 44 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
178 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWJ | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.05% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 2 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 3.43% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 3 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.56% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 4 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.87% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.84% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.39% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 7 | Sony Group Corporation | 2.54% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 2.14% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 9 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 3.34% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 10 | Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. | 1.80% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 11 | Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | 1.56% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi Corporation | 1.95% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in EWJ
0 totalEvery EWJ position is also held by VXUS.
Only in VXUS
8,558 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
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More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs FEZ · State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF 10.9%
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- VXUS vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 9.7%
- VXUS vs JGLO · Jpmorgan Global Select Equity ETF 8.8%
- VXUS vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 8.2%
- VXUS vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 7.9%
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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