ETF comparison
IXUS vs SCHF
International Total vs International Developed.
iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
1,395 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXUS and SCHF would leave roughly 67.9% 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 4 bps cheaper than IXUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for IXUS.
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 IXUS vs SCHF.
Top shared holdings
1,395 shared in total| # | Holding | In IXUS | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.92% | 2.88% | 1.92% |
| 2 | ASML Holding N.V. | 1.51% | 2.14% | 1.51% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 1.48% | 2.23% | 1.48% |
| 4 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.86% | 1.17% | 0.86% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.72% | 1.01% | 0.72% |
| 6 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.69% | 0.94% | 0.69% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.68% | 0.94% | 0.68% |
| 8 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.60% | 0.80% | 0.60% |
| 9 | Nestle S.A. | 0.60% | 0.83% | 0.60% |
| 10 | SHELL PLC | 0.60% | 0.84% | 0.60% |
| 11 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.57% | 0.80% | 0.57% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.56% | 0.82% | 0.56% |
Only in IXUS
3,094 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.60%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.36%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.23%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.23%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.22%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.21%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.20%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.18%
Only in SCHF
79 total- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.14%
- Amrize Ltd 0.07%
- Fresenius SE & Co KGaA 0.07%
- Investor AB 0.07%
- James Hardie Industries PLC 0.05%
- Light & Wonder Inc 0.03%
- Volvo AB 0.02%
- Technoprobe SpA 0.02%
- Korea Zinc Co Ltd 0.01%
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More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 67.7%
- IXUS vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 67.6%
- IXUS vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 59.9%
- IXUS vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 57.2%
- IXUS vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 56.4%
- IXUS vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 55.0%
More comparisons with SCHF
- SCHF vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 65.4%
- SCHF vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 65.1%
- SCHF vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 56.1%
- SCHF vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 50.1%
- SCHF vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 49.1%
- SCHF vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 48.3%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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