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EWG vs VPL

Both International Developed.

iShares MSCI Germany ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWG unmatched 99.9% Shared 0.0% VPL unmatched 99.4%

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 VPL only
2,337 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%
VPL

Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Developed

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$12.66B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
2.30%
Top-10 conc.
23.8%

Sub-score comparison

51
Cost
93
79
Tax efficiency
78
65
Liquidity
100
24
Concentration
80
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Tracking quality
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EWG sub-score VPL

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

Cost difference

VPL is 42 bps cheaper than EWG. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/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 VPL.

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 VPL

2,337 total
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
  • SK hynix Inc 5.18%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 2.00%
  • BHP Group Ltd 1.77%
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.72%
  • 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%

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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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