ETF comparison
EWC vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Canada ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
80 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWC and VEA would leave roughly 9.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VEA is 47 bps cheaper than EWC. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/yr more in fees for EWC.
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 EWC vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
80 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWC | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Bank of Canada | 7.78% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 2 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 5.61% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 3 | Enbridge Inc | 3.81% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 4 | Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd | 4.16% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 5 | Canadian Natural Resources Ltd | 3.02% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 6 | Bank of Montreal | 3.43% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 7 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 3.12% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 8 | Bank of Nova Scotia/The | 3.11% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 9 | Brookfield Corp | 2.86% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 10 | Suncor Energy Inc | 2.30% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 11 | Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd | 2.68% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 12 | Barrick Mining Corp | 2.87% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
Only in EWC
5 total- BlackRock Funds III 1.00%
- Rogers Communications Inc 0.47%
- CCL Industries Inc 0.34%
- Canadian Utilities Ltd 0.15%
- Empire Co Ltd 0.15%
Only in VEA
3,801 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.88%
- ASML Holding NV 1.77%
- SK hynix Inc 1.05%
- Novartis AG 1.01%
- AstraZeneca PLC 1.01%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- Roche Holding AG 0.96%
- Shell PLC 0.90%
- Nestle SA 0.87%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.76%
Open EWC or VEA at a brokerage
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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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