ETF comparison
EWT vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
82 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWT and VT would leave roughly 2.7% 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
VT is 53 bps cheaper than EWT. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/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 VT.
Top shared holdings
82 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWT | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 19.33% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | MediaTek Inc. | 7.55% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 5.64% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 4 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 4.09% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 2.86% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | United Microelectronics Corporation | 2.25% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 2.75% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.46% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.35% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 2.20% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 2.72% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.11% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in EWT
2 total- HonPrecision Inc 1.10%
- YA HSIN INDUSTRIAL CO LTD 0.00%
Only in VT
9,968 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.80%
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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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