ETF comparison
EWS vs EWU
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and EWU would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.50% vs 0.50%).
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 EWS vs EWU.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in EWS
17 total- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 24.02%
- OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 20.37%
- SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 5.25%
- SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD 4.92%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.56%
- WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 4.41%
- SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD 4.41%
- UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 4.26%
- CapitaLand Ascendas REIT 4.21%
- SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED 4.21%
Only in EWU
72 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 10.06%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 8.98%
- SHELL PLC 7.51%
- ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC 4.71%
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. 4.20%
- UNILEVER PLC 3.83%
- RIO TINTO PLC 3.74%
- BP P.L.C. 3.47%
- GSK PLC 3.21%
- BARCLAYS PLC 2.64%
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- EWS vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 0.0%
- EWS vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 0.0%
- EWS vs HEFA · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF 0.0%
- EWS vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with EWU
- EWU vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 0.0%
- EWU vs FEZ · State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF 0.0%
- EWU vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 0.0%
- EWU vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 0.0%
- EWU vs HEFA · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF 0.0%
- EWU vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open EWS or EWU at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.