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EWU vs VT

International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
2.9 %

72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWU and VT would leave roughly 2.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWU unmatched 96.2% Shared 2.9% VT unmatched 96.3%

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.

In EWU only
0 positions
Shared
72 positions
In VT only
9,978 positions

Side by side

EWU

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF

iShares · International Developed

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$3.67B
TTM yield
3.15%
Top-10 conc.
52.4%
VT

Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Global Stock (incl. US)

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$101.18B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
1.55%
Top-10 conc.
21.5%

Sub-score comparison

50
Cost
94
77
Tax efficiency
85
81
Liquidity
100
39
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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EWU sub-score VT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VT is 44 bps cheaper than EWU. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/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 VT.

Top shared holdings

72 shared in total
# Holding In EWU In VT Overlap
1 HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 10.06% 0.32% 0.32%
2 SHELL PLC 7.51% 0.22% 0.22%
3 ASTRAZENECA PLC 8.98% 0.22% 0.22%
4 ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC 4.71% 0.15% 0.15%
5 UNILEVER PLC 3.83% 0.12% 0.12%
6 BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. 4.20% 0.11% 0.11%
7 BP P.L.C. 3.47% 0.10% 0.10%
8 GSK PLC 3.21% 0.09% 0.09%
9 RIO TINTO PLC 3.74% 0.09% 0.09%
10 BARCLAYS PLC 2.64% 0.08% 0.08%
11 LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC 2.51% 0.08% 0.08%
12 BAE SYSTEMS PLC 2.55% 0.07% 0.07%

Only in EWU

0 total

Every EWU position is also held by VT.

Only in VT

9,978 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%
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.44%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%

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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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