ETF comparison
EWT vs VWO
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF · Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund
Holdings overlap
82 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWT and VWO would leave roughly 25.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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 Co., Ltd. | 21.93% | 14.61% | 14.61% |
| 2 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 4.47% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc. | 4.62% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 4 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 4.60% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 5 | ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | 2.43% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 6 | ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 1.76% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 7 | UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 1.67% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 8 | Accton Technology Corp. | 1.71% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 9 | Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd. | 1.38% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 10 | CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | 1.81% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 11 | QUANTA COMPUTER INC. | 1.50% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 12 | CHROMA ATE INC. | 1.12% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in EWT
2 total- HonPrecision Inc 0.82%
- YA HSIN INDUSTRIAL CO LTD 0.00%
Only in VWO
4,908 total- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.26%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.55%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.90%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.85%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.80%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.66%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.62%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.61%
- Xiaomi Corp 0.56%
- Bharti Airtel Ltd 0.51%
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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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