ETF comparison
EWU vs SCHF
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
68 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWU and SCHF would leave roughly 10.7% 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
SCHF is 47 bps cheaper than EWU. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/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 EWU vs SCHF.
Top shared holdings
68 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWU | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 10.95% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 2 | SHELL PLC | 7.93% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 3 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 7.59% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 4 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 5.28% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 5 | UNILEVER PLC | 4.33% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 6 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. | 3.46% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 7 | BP P.L.C. | 3.49% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 8 | RIO TINTO PLC | 3.40% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 9 | GSK PLC | 3.17% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 10 | BARCLAYS PLC | 2.80% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 11 | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 2.67% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 12 | BAE SYSTEMS PLC | 2.50% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
Only in EWU
0 totalEvery EWU position is also held by SCHF.
Only in SCHF
1,406 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.88%
- SK hynix Inc 2.23%
- ASML Holding NV 2.14%
- Roche Holding AG 1.01%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.94%
- Novartis AG 0.94%
- Nestle SA 0.83%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.82%
- Siemens AG 0.80%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.79%
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- EWU vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 6.2%
- EWU vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 6.1%
More comparisons with SCHF
- SCHF vs EWC · iShares MSCI Canada ETF 10.3%
- SCHF vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 9.6%
- SCHF vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 9.4%
- SCHF vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 7.5%
- SCHF vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 7.3%
- SCHF vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 6.8%
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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