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EWT vs VEA

International Emerging vs International Developed.

iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWT unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% VEA unmatched 97.4%

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 EWT only
84 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VEA only
3,862 positions

Side by side

EWT

iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF

iShares · International Emerging

63 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$12.34B
TTM yield
2.68%
Top-10 conc.
51.5%
VEA

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Developed

94 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$313.54B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
2.47%
Top-10 conc.
13.1%

Sub-score comparison

41
Cost
97
75
Tax efficiency
78
100
Liquidity
100
41
Concentration
96
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Tracking quality
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EWT sub-score VEA

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

Cost difference

VEA is 56 bps cheaper than EWT. On a $100,000 position that's about $560/yr more in fees for EWT.

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 EWT vs VEA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWT

84 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 19.33%
  • MediaTek Inc. 7.55%
  • DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 5.64%
  • HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 4.09%
  • ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 2.86%
  • ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. 2.75%
  • UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. 2.72%
  • United Microelectronics Corporation 2.25%
  • ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 2.20%
  • YAGEO CORPORATION 2.15%

Only in VEA

3,862 total
  • ASML Holding NV 2.36%
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
  • SK hynix Inc 1.39%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
  • Novartis AG 0.90%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
  • Roche Holding AG 0.89%
  • AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
  • Nestle SA 0.82%

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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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