ETF comparison
EWA vs FNDF
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Australia ETF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWA and FNDF would leave roughly 4.3% 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
FNDF is 25 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for EWA.
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 EWA vs FNDF.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWA | In FNDF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.91% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 12.74% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 3 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.09% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 4 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.34% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.95% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.64% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 5.63% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 8 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.35% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 9 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.30% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | FORTESCUE LTD | 1.36% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.32% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 12 | COLES GROUP LIMITED | 1.54% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in EWA
16 total- EVOLUTION MINING LIMITED 1.44%
- PLS GROUP LIMITED 0.81%
- WASHINGTON H. SOUL PATTINSON AND COMPANY LIMITED 0.72%
- LYNAS RARE EARTHS LIMITED 0.68%
- SIGMA HEALTHCARE LIMITED 0.66%
- XERO LIMITED 0.64%
- THE LOTTERY CORPORATION LIMITED 0.53%
- ASX LIMITED 0.52%
- Pro Medicus Limited 0.49%
- CAR GROUP LIMITED 0.48%
Only in FNDF
855 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 3.73%
- Shell PLC 2.40%
- TotalEnergies SE 1.68%
- Glencore PLC 1.12%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.11%
- BP PLC 1.04%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.93%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- Banco Santander SA 0.83%
- Rio Tinto PLC 0.74%
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- EWA vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 3.5%
- EWA vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 3.4%
- EWA vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 3.1%
- EWA vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 3.1%
- EWA vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 3.0%
More comparisons with FNDF
- FNDF vs EWP · iShares MSCI Spain ETF 3.0%
- FNDF vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 3.0%
- FNDF vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 2.4%
- FNDF vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 2.4%
- FNDF vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 1.1%
- FNDF vs EWH · iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF 1.0%
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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