ETF comparison
DXJ vs EWJ
Both International Developed.
WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund · iShares MSCI Japan ETF
Holdings overlap
105 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DXJ and EWJ would leave roughly 58.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DXJ is 1 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for EWJ.
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 DXJ vs EWJ.
Top shared holdings
105 shared in total| # | Holding | In DXJ | In EWJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toyota Motor Corp. | 4.56% | 4.41% | 4.41% |
| 2 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. | 4.71% | 4.09% | 4.09% |
| 3 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. | 3.06% | 2.66% | 2.66% |
| 4 | Mizuho Financial Group Inc. | 2.31% | 2.13% | 2.13% |
| 5 | Mitsubishi Corp. | 3.06% | 2.09% | 2.09% |
| 6 | Mitsui & Co Ltd. | 2.44% | 1.78% | 1.78% |
| 7 | Tokyo Electron Ltd. | 1.69% | 2.42% | 1.69% |
| 8 | ITOCHU Corp. | 1.82% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 9 | Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. | 3.13% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 10 | Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd. | 1.28% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 11 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd. | 2.05% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | 1.09% | 1.39% | 1.09% |
Only in DXJ
325 total- ONO Pharmaceutical Co Ltd 0.28%
- Sojitz Corp. 0.28%
- Niterra Co Ltd. 0.24%
- Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd. 0.23%
- Furukawa Electric Co Ltd. 0.22%
- Nissan Chemical Corp. 0.20%
- Kobe Steel Ltd 0.19%
- Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd 0.19%
- Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd. 0.18%
- THK CO LTD 0.18%
Only in EWJ
76 total- SoftBank Group Corp. 1.88%
- KDDI CORPORATION 0.97%
- ORIX CORPORATION 0.78%
- SoftBank Corp. 0.76%
- Mitsubishi Estate Company, Limited 0.69%
- Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. 0.69%
- JAPAN POST BANK Co.,Ltd. 0.67%
- Renesas Electronics Corporation 0.64%
- AEON CO.,LTD. 0.61%
- Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd. 0.57%
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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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