ETF comparison
EWA vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Australia ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWA and VPL would leave roughly 12.0% 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
VPL is 43 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWA | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.91% | 1.77% | 1.77% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 12.74% | 1.72% | 1.72% |
| 3 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 5.63% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 4 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.64% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 5 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.34% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 6 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.30% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 7 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.32% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 8 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.95% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 9 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.09% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 10 | CSL LIMITED | 3.96% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 11 | GOODMAN GROUP | 2.63% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 12 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.35% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
Only in EWA
0 totalEvery EWA position is also held by VPL.
Only in VPL
2,290 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
- SK hynix Inc 5.18%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 2.00%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.66%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 1.28%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.21%
- Hitachi Ltd 1.19%
- Advantest Corp 1.18%
- Sony Group Corp 1.14%
- Mizuho Financial Group Inc 1.01%
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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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