ETF comparison
IXUS vs SPDW
International Total vs International Developed.
iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
2,068 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXUS and SPDW would leave roughly 68.6% 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
SPDW is 4 bps cheaper than IXUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for IXUS.
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 IXUS vs SPDW.
Top shared holdings
2,068 shared in total| # | Holding | In IXUS | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 1.51% | 2.28% | 1.51% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc. | 1.48% | 2.79% | 1.48% |
| 3 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.86% | 0.97% | 0.86% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 0.72% | 0.86% | 0.72% |
| 5 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.69% | 0.86% | 0.69% |
| 6 | Novartis AG | 0.68% | 0.86% | 0.68% |
| 7 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.60% | 0.87% | 0.60% |
| 8 | Nestle S.A. | 0.60% | 0.80% | 0.60% |
| 9 | SHELL PLC | 0.60% | 0.68% | 0.60% |
| 10 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.57% | 0.70% | 0.57% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.56% | 0.72% | 0.56% |
| 12 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.50% | 0.63% | 0.50% |
Only in IXUS
2,421 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%
Only in SPDW
360 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.15%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.13%
- Ryanair Holdings PLC 0.06%
- POSCO Holdings Inc 0.05%
- James Hardie Industries PLC 0.05%
- IREN Ltd 0.05%
- ICON PLC 0.04%
- Ascendis Pharma A/S 0.04%
- JFrog Ltd 0.03%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 67.9%
- IXUS vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 67.7%
- IXUS vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 67.6%
- IXUS vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 59.9%
- IXUS vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 57.2%
- IXUS vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 56.4%
More comparisons with SPDW
- SPDW vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 67.3%
- SPDW vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 67.3%
- SPDW vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 64.8%
- SPDW vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 64.8%
- SPDW vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 63.5%
- SPDW vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 58.6%
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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