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EWY vs VT

International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
2.0 %

81 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWY and VT would leave roughly 2.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWY unmatched 97.4% Shared 2.0% VT unmatched 97.1%

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 EWY only
0 positions
Shared
81 positions
In VT only
9,969 positions

Side by side

EWY

iShares MSCI South Korea ETF

iShares · International Emerging

59 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$26.21B
TTM yield
1.35%
Top-10 conc.
69.7%
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

41
Cost
94
78
Tax efficiency
85
100
Liquidity
100
15
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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EWY sub-score VT

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

Cost difference

VT is 53 bps cheaper than EWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/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 VT.

Top shared holdings

81 shared in total
# Holding In EWY In VT Overlap
1 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 23.88% 0.70% 0.70%
2 SK hynix Inc. 30.85% 0.55% 0.55%
3 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.07% 0.09% 0.07%
4 SK Square Co., Ltd. 3.08% 0.05% 0.05%
5 SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD 3.42% 0.04% 0.04%
6 HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 2.43% 0.03% 0.03%
7 KB Financial Group Inc. 1.40% 0.03% 0.03%
8 SHINHAN FINANCIAL GROUP CO.,LTD 1.03% 0.03% 0.03%
9 Hana Financial Group Inc. 0.83% 0.02% 0.02%
10 NAVER Corporation 0.85% 0.02% 0.02%
11 KIA CORPORATION 1.01% 0.02% 0.02%
12 HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 1.01% 0.02% 0.02%

Only in EWY

0 total

Every EWY position is also held by VT.

Only in VT

9,969 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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