ETF comparison
EWZ vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI Brazil ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
45 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWZ and VT would leave roughly 0.4% 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
VT is 53 bps cheaper than EWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/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 VT.
Top shared holdings
45 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWZ | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VALE S.A. | 11.50% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 2 | Nu Holdings Ltd. | 8.71% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) | 7.28% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. | 8.48% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) | 6.70% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | B3 S.A - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcao | 3.57% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 7 | ITAUSA S.A. | 2.62% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | AXIA Energia S.A. | 2.64% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Banco Bradesco S.A. | 3.33% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | WEG S.A. | 3.05% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | BANCO BTG PACTUAL S.A. | 2.68% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - SABESP | 2.87% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in EWZ
1 total- AXIA Energia S.A. 0.65%
Only in VT
10,005 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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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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