ETF comparison
BBAX vs EWS
Both International Developed.
JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BBAX and EWS would leave roughly 15.2% 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
BBAX is 31 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for EWS.
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 BBAX vs EWS.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In BBAX | In EWS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd. | 5.23% | 23.81% | 5.23% |
| 2 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd. | 3.29% | 22.28% | 3.29% |
| 3 | United Overseas Bank Ltd. | 1.98% | 4.12% | 1.98% |
| 4 | Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. | 1.26% | 3.47% | 1.26% |
| 5 | Keppel Ltd. | 0.56% | 4.32% | 0.56% |
| 6 | Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. | 0.55% | 3.73% | 0.55% |
| 7 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 0.53% | 2.72% | 0.53% |
| 8 | Singapore Exchange Ltd. | 0.70% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 9 | Singapore Airlines Ltd. | 0.39% | 3.86% | 0.39% |
| 10 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 0.37% | 3.75% | 0.37% |
| 11 | Wilmar International Ltd. | 0.27% | 3.71% | 0.27% |
| 12 | CapitaLand Investment Ltd. | 0.20% | 1.17% | 0.20% |
Only in BBAX
80 total- BHP Group Ltd. 9.50%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 9.31%
- AIA Group Ltd. 4.69%
- Westpac Banking Corp. 4.03%
- National Australia Bank Ltd. 3.94%
- ANZ Group Holdings Ltd. 3.49%
- Wesfarmers Ltd. 3.16%
- Macquarie Group Ltd. 2.87%
- Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. 2.77%
- Woodside Energy Group Ltd. 1.98%
Only in EWS
5 total- SEA LIMITED 4.92%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.68%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 3.82%
- SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 3.30%
- SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD 3.29%
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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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