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EWJ vs EWU

Both International Developed.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EWJ unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% EWU unmatched 99.1%

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 EWJ only
168 positions
Shared
0 positions
In EWU only
68 positions

Side by side

EWJ

iShares MSCI Japan ETF

iShares · International Developed

71 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$23.40B
TTM yield
3.94%
Top-10 conc.
30.1%
EWU

iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF

iShares · International Developed

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$3.73B
TTM yield
3.12%
Top-10 conc.
52.4%

Sub-score comparison

51
Cost
50
75
Tax efficiency
77
100
Liquidity
81
71
Concentration
39
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Tracking quality
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EWJ sub-score EWU

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

Cost difference

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

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 EWJ vs EWU.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EWJ

168 total
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 4.62%
  • TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 3.53%
  • Tokyo Electron Limited 2.98%
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 2.96%
  • ADVANTEST CORPORATION 2.91%
  • Hitachi, Ltd. 2.85%
  • Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. 2.85%
  • Sony Group Corporation 2.74%
  • Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 2.39%
  • SoftBank Group Corp. 2.27%

Only in EWU

68 total
  • HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 10.95%
  • SHELL PLC 7.93%
  • ASTRAZENECA PLC 7.59%
  • ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC 5.28%
  • UNILEVER PLC 4.33%
  • BP P.L.C. 3.49%
  • BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. 3.46%
  • RIO TINTO PLC 3.40%
  • GSK PLC 3.17%
  • BARCLAYS PLC 2.80%

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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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