ETF comparison
EWG vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Germany ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWG and SPDW would leave roughly 5.6% 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
SPDW is 46 bps cheaper than EWG. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/yr more in fees for EWG.
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 SPDW.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWG | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 12.19% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 2 | Allianz SE | 9.82% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 3 | SAP SE | 11.38% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 4 | Siemens Energy AG | 6.32% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 5 | Infineon Technologies AG | 4.22% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 6 | Deutsche Telekom AG | 5.59% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Muenchen | 3.89% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft | 3.60% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Deutsche Post AG | 2.96% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | Bayer Aktiengesellschaft | 2.77% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft | 2.97% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Deutsche Boerse Aktiengesellschaft | 3.01% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in EWG
1 total- Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA 1.10%
Only in SPDW
2,377 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- ASML Holding NV 2.28%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Roche Holding AG 0.86%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Novartis AG 0.86%
- Nestle SA 0.80%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
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- EWG vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 1.7%
- EWG vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 1.2%
- EWG vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 0.9%
More comparisons with SPDW
- SPDW vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 5.4%
- SPDW vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 5.4%
- SPDW vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 4.5%
- SPDW vs EWA · iShares MSCI Australia ETF 4.3%
- SPDW vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 3.6%
- SPDW vs EWP · iShares MSCI Spain ETF 2.7%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.