ETF comparison
BBEU vs EWU
Both International Developed.
JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF
Holdings overlap
65 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BBEU and EWU would leave roughly 23.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
BBEU is 41 bps cheaper than EWU. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for EWU.
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 BBEU vs EWU.
Top shared holdings
65 shared in total| # | Holding | In BBEU | In EWU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC Holdings plc | 2.34% | 9.51% | 2.34% |
| 2 | AstraZeneca plc | 2.18% | 9.64% | 2.18% |
| 3 | Shell plc | 1.90% | 7.17% | 1.90% |
| 4 | Rolls-Royce Holdings plc | 0.99% | 4.47% | 0.99% |
| 5 | British American Tobacco plc | 0.95% | 4.03% | 0.95% |
| 6 | Unilever plc | 0.94% | 4.73% | 0.94% |
| 7 | BP plc | 0.90% | 3.01% | 0.90% |
| 8 | Rio Tinto plc | 0.80% | 3.30% | 0.80% |
| 9 | GSK plc | 0.78% | 3.57% | 0.78% |
| 10 | National Grid plc | 0.66% | 2.74% | 0.66% |
| 11 | Barclays plc | 0.61% | 2.50% | 0.61% |
| 12 | BAE Systems plc | 0.60% | 2.53% | 0.60% |
Only in BBEU
302 total- ASML Holding NV 4.15%
- Novartis AG 2.09%
- Roche Holding AG 2.08%
- Nestle SA 1.93%
- Siemens AG 1.61%
- TotalEnergies SE 1.35%
- Banco Santander SA 1.32%
- Allianz SE 1.29%
- SAP SE 1.28%
- Schneider Electric SE 1.28%
Only in EWU
9 total- Ashtead Group PLC 0.89%
- Endeavour Mining PLC 0.41%
- Marks & Spencer Group PLC 0.33%
- Land Securities Group PLC 0.18%
- Whitbread PLC 0.18%
- DCC PLC 0.17%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.13%
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC 0.09%
- JD Sports Fashion PLC 0.08%
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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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