ETF comparison
EWY vs VEA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
iShares MSCI South Korea ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
81 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWY and VEA would leave roughly 5.7% 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 56 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $560/yr more in fees for EWY.
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 EWY vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
81 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWY | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 23.88% | 1.55% | 1.55% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc. | 30.85% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 3 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 3.08% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 4 | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 3.42% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 5 | HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY | 2.43% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 6 | KB Financial Group Inc. | 1.40% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | SHINHAN FINANCIAL GROUP CO.,LTD | 1.03% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. | 1.21% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | SAMSUNG C&T CORPORATION | 0.99% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.07% | 0.35% | 0.07% |
| 11 | KIA CORPORATION | 1.01% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd. | 0.90% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in EWY
0 totalEvery EWY position is also held by VEA.
Only in VEA
3,781 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Siemens AG 0.73%
- Shell PLC 0.67%
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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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