ETF comparison
EWJ vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Japan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
180 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWJ and VPL would leave roughly 41.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VPL is 42 bps cheaper than EWJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
180 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWJ | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 4.41% | 1.73% | 1.73% |
| 2 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.09% | 1.67% | 1.67% |
| 3 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.88% | 1.16% | 1.16% |
| 4 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.54% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 5 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 1.88% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 6 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.42% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 7 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.66% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| 8 | Sony Group Corporation | 2.72% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 9 | Mitsubishi Corporation | 2.09% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 10 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 2.13% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | 1.96% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 12 | MITSUI & CO., LTD. | 1.78% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
Only in EWJ
1 total- TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION 0.40%
Only in VPL
2,152 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.00%
- SK hynix Inc 4.08%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.78%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.64%
- AIA Group Ltd 0.98%
- Westpac Banking Corp 0.81%
- DBS Group Holdings Ltd 0.79%
- National Australia Bank Ltd 0.75%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.73%
- ANZ Group Holdings Ltd 0.68%
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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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