ETF comparison
EWU vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWU and VXUS would leave roughly 7.5% 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
VXUS is 45 bps cheaper than EWU. On a $100,000 position that's about $450/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
72 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWU | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 10.06% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 2 | SHELL PLC | 7.51% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 3 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 8.98% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 4 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 4.71% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 5 | UNILEVER PLC | 3.83% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. | 4.20% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | BP P.L.C. | 3.47% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 8 | GSK PLC | 3.21% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | RIO TINTO PLC | 3.74% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 10 | BARCLAYS PLC | 2.64% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 11 | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 2.51% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | BAE SYSTEMS PLC | 2.55% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in EWU
0 totalEvery EWU position is also held by VXUS.
Only in VXUS
8,664 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
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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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