ETF comparison
EWJ vs JIRE
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Japan ETF · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
55 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and JIRE would leave roughly 22.5% 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
JIRE is 25 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for EWJ.
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 JIRE.
Top shared holdings
55 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWJ | In JIRE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.96% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 2 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 3.53% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 3 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.98% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 4 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.85% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 5 | Sony Group Corporation | 2.74% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 6 | KEYENCE CORPORATION | 1.86% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 7 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.91% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | 1.63% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 9 | ITOCHU Corporation | 1.39% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 10 | MITSUI & CO., LTD. | 1.40% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 11 | Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. | 2.85% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.62% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
Only in EWJ
113 total- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 2.39%
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 1.25%
- Nintendo Co., Ltd. 1.17%
- Fujikura Ltd. 0.97%
- SUMITOMO CORPORATION 0.86%
- Marubeni Corporation 0.82%
- SoftBank Corp. 0.81%
- KOMATSU LTD. 0.76%
- Daiichi Life Group, Inc. 0.75%
- HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. 0.74%
Only in JIRE
147 total- ASML Holding NV 3.48%
- Siemens AG 1.78%
- AstraZeneca plc 1.69%
- Shell plc 1.55%
- HSBC Holdings plc 1.54%
- Allianz SE 1.51%
- Banco Santander SA 1.36%
- UniCredit SpA 1.33%
- Nestle SA 1.33%
- Roche Holding AG 1.32%
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- JIRE vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 22.2%
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- JIRE vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 17.3%
- JIRE vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 16.7%
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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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