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EWG vs EWS

Both International Developed.

iShares MSCI Germany ETF · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWG and EWS would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWG unmatched 99.9% Shared 0.0% EWS unmatched 97.5%

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.

In EWG only
52 positions
Shared
0 positions
In EWS only
17 positions

Side by side

EWG

iShares MSCI Germany ETF

iShares · International Developed

56 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$1.57B
TTM yield
1.94%
Top-10 conc.
63.0%
EWS

iShares MSCI Singapore ETF

iShares · International Developed

50 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$1.08B
TTM yield
3.90%
Top-10 conc.
79.3%

Sub-score comparison

51
Cost
50
79
Tax efficiency
75
65
Liquidity
58
24
Concentration
1
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Tracking quality
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EWG sub-score EWS

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

EWG is 1 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for EWS.

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 EWG vs EWS.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWG

52 total
  • Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 12.19%
  • SAP SE 11.38%
  • Allianz SE 9.82%
  • Siemens Energy AG 6.32%
  • Deutsche Telekom AG 5.59%
  • Infineon Technologies AG 4.22%
  • Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Muenchen 3.89%
  • Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft 3.60%
  • Deutsche Boerse Aktiengesellschaft 3.01%
  • Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 2.97%

Only in EWS

17 total
  • DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 23.81%
  • OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 22.28%
  • SEA LIMITED 4.92%
  • YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.68%
  • KEPPEL LTD. 4.32%
  • UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 4.12%
  • SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED 3.86%
  • GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 3.82%
  • CapitaLand Ascendas REIT 3.75%
  • SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD 3.73%

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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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