ETF comparison
EWU vs SCHF
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWU and SCHF would leave roughly 10.6% 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
SCHF is 47 bps cheaper than EWU. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/yr more in fees for EWU.
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 EWU vs SCHF.
Top shared holdings
72 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWU | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 10.06% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 2 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 8.98% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 3 | SHELL PLC | 7.51% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 4 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 4.71% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 5 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. | 4.20% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 6 | UNILEVER PLC | 3.83% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 7 | RIO TINTO PLC | 3.74% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 8 | BP P.L.C. | 3.47% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 9 | GSK PLC | 3.21% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | BARCLAYS PLC | 2.64% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 11 | BAE SYSTEMS PLC | 2.55% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 12 | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 2.51% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
Only in EWU
0 totalEvery EWU position is also held by SCHF.
Only in SCHF
1,403 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 3.32%
- SK hynix Inc 2.81%
- ASML Holding NV 2.10%
- Roche Holding AG 0.99%
- Novartis AG 0.97%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Nestle SA 0.88%
- Siemens AG 0.77%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.74%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.69%
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- EWU vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 7.7%
- EWU vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 7.5%
- EWU vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 6.8%
- EWU vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 6.3%
More comparisons with SCHF
- SCHF vs EWC · iShares MSCI Canada ETF 10.1%
- SCHF vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 9.7%
- SCHF vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 7.2%
- SCHF vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 7.0%
- SCHF vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 6.8%
- SCHF vs EWG · iShares MSCI Germany ETF 6.5%
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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