ETF comparison
EWU vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWU and VEA would leave roughly 9.6% 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
VEA 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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
72 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWU | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 10.06% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 2 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 8.98% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 3 | SHELL PLC | 7.51% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 4 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 4.71% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 5 | UNILEVER PLC | 3.83% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 6 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. | 4.20% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 7 | GSK PLC | 3.21% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | RIO TINTO PLC | 3.74% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 9 | BP P.L.C. | 3.47% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 10 | BARCLAYS PLC | 2.64% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 11 | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 2.51% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 12 | NATIONAL GRID PLC | 2.49% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Only in EWU
0 totalEvery EWU position is also held by VEA.
Only in VEA
3,790 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Siemens AG 0.73%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.67%
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- VEA vs EWC · iShares MSCI Canada ETF 8.7%
- VEA vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 8.2%
- VEA vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 7.7%
- VEA vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 7.7%
- VEA vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 7.3%
- VEA vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 6.6%
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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