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EWH vs VPL

Both International Developed.

iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
3.5 %

24 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWH and VPL would leave roughly 3.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWH only 95.2% Shared 3.5% VPL only 95.6%
In EWH only
2 positions
Shared
24 positions
In VPL only
2,308 positions

Side by side

EWH

iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF

iShares · International Developed

52 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$1.13B
TTM yield
4.69%
Top-10 conc.
69.4%
VPL

Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Developed

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$13.83B
TTM yield
2.71%
Top-10 conc.
21.9%

Sub-score comparison

50
Cost
93
74
Tax efficiency
78
59
Liquidity
100
15
Concentration
83
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Tracking quality
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EWH sub-score VPL

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

Cost difference

VPL is 43 bps cheaper than EWH. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for EWH.

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 EWH vs VPL.

Top shared holdings

24 shared in total
# Holding In EWH In VPL Overlap
1 AIA Group Ltd 22.02% 0.98% 0.98%
2 Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd 13.28% 0.54% 0.54%
3 Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd 6.01% 0.21% 0.21%
4 CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd 5.08% 0.19% 0.19%
5 BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd 4.86% 0.17% 0.17%
6 Techtronic Industries Co Ltd 5.49% 0.17% 0.17%
7 CLP Holdings Ltd 3.62% 0.13% 0.13%
8 Link REIT 3.00% 0.11% 0.11%
9 Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd 3.17% 0.11% 0.11%
10 Power Assets Holdings Ltd 2.66% 0.10% 0.10%
11 CK Asset Holdings Ltd 2.88% 0.10% 0.10%
12 Hong Kong & China Gas Co Ltd 2.56% 0.09% 0.09%

Only in EWH

2 total
  • Futu Holdings Ltd 2.09%
  • HKT Trust & HKT Ltd 1.47%

Only in VPL

2,308 total
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.00%
  • SK hynix Inc 4.08%
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.78%
  • Toyota Motor Corp 1.73%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.67%
  • BHP Group Ltd 1.64%
  • Hitachi Ltd 1.16%
  • Advantest Corp 1.14%
  • SoftBank Group Corp 1.13%
  • Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.10%

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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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