ETF comparison
FNDF vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
850 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FNDF and IXUS would leave roughly 51.5% 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 18 bps cheaper than FNDF. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/yr more in fees for FNDF.
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 FNDF vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
850 shared in total| # | Holding | In FNDF | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 5.52% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 1.37% | 1.48% | 1.37% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 1.00% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 5 | Nestle SA | 0.67% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 6 | Shell PLC | 2.19% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.59% | 0.68% | 0.59% |
| 8 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.52% | 0.69% | 0.52% |
| 9 | BHP Group Ltd | 1.22% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 10 | Banco Santander SA | 0.73% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 11 | Siemens AG | 0.47% | 0.57% | 0.47% |
| 12 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 0.50% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
Only in FNDF
37 total- Medtronic PLC 0.20%
- Telecom Italia SpA/Milano 0.16%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.15%
- Aptiv PLC 0.08%
- BioNTech SE 0.08%
- Volkswagen AG 0.07%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.06%
- Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 0.06%
- Garmin Ltd 0.05%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.05%
Only in IXUS
3,639 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.60%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.36%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.23%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.23%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.22%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.21%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.20%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.18%
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- FNDF vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 46.2%
- FNDF vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 43.2%
- FNDF vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 42.3%
- FNDF vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 39.2%
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 51.5%
- IXUS vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 51.4%
- IXUS vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 49.3%
- IXUS vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 45.3%
- IXUS vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 43.0%
- IXUS vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 40.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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