ETF comparison
EWT vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
82 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWT and VWO would leave roughly 26.8% 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
VWO 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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
82 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWT | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 19.33% | 15.56% | 15.56% |
| 2 | MediaTek Inc. | 7.55% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 3 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 5.64% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 4 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 4.09% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 5 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 2.86% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 6 | ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 2.75% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | United Microelectronics Corporation | 2.25% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 8 | CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.46% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 9 | Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.35% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 10 | ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 2.20% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 11 | UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 2.72% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 12 | Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.11% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
Only in EWT
2 total- HonPrecision Inc 1.10%
- YA HSIN INDUSTRIAL CO LTD 0.00%
Only in VWO
4,898 total- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.66%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.59%
- Meituan 0.56%
- Xiaomi Corp 0.55%
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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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