ETF comparison
EWZ vs VEA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
iShares MSCI Brazil ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWZ and VEA would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VEA is 56 bps cheaper than EWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $560/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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in EWZ
46 total- VALE S.A. 11.50%
- Nu Holdings Ltd. 8.71%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 8.48%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 7.28%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 6.70%
- B3 S.A - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcao 3.57%
- Banco Bradesco S.A. 3.33%
- AMBEV S.A. 3.19%
- WEG S.A. 3.05%
- Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - SABESP 2.87%
Only in VEA
3,862 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- 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%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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