ETF comparison
EWZ vs IXUS
International Emerging vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Brazil ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
45 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWZ and IXUS would leave roughly 1.2% 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
IXUS is 52 bps cheaper than EWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $520/yr more in fees for EWZ.
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 EWZ vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
45 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWZ | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VALE S.A. | 11.50% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 2 | Nu Holdings Ltd. | 8.71% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 3 | Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. | 8.48% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 4 | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) | 7.28% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 5 | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) | 6.70% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | Banco Bradesco S.A. | 3.33% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | B3 S.A - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcao | 3.57% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | ITAUSA S.A. | 2.62% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | WEG S.A. | 3.05% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | AXIA Energia S.A. | 2.64% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - SABESP | 2.87% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | AMBEV S.A. | 3.19% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in EWZ
1 total- AXIA Energia S.A. 0.65%
Only in IXUS
4,444 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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