ETF comparison
EWS vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and VXUS would leave roughly 0.8% 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
VXUS is 45 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $450/yr more in fees for EWS.
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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 24.02% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 20.37% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 3 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.26% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.90% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 5 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 5.25% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 6 | KEPPEL LTD. | 3.64% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.77% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 4.92% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 4.21% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 4.21% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 4.56% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 4.41% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in EWS
3 total- SEA LIMITED 3.66%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 3.63%
- BNP Paribas 0.01%
Only in VXUS
8,722 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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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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