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HEWJ holdings and overlap

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HEWJiShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETFJapan, iShares, 168 positions
Last close, 2026-09-04
$65.20 +0.73%
52-week range 48 to 67
Largest position
EWJ
102.94% of the fund, iShares MSCI Japan ETF
Positions
168
131.3% in the ten largest
Cost per year
0.49%
$49 a year on $10,000
Assets
$0.8B
under management
Return, 3 years
+107.6%
cumulative, total return
Worst fall
-16.2%
peak to trough, 3 years, weekly closes

What does HEWJ hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-09-03?

HEWJ holds 168 positions as of the issuer file dated 2026-09-03. The three largest are iShares MSCI Japan ETF at 102.94%, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group at 4.93% and Toyota Motor at 3.63%; half of the fund sits in its ten largest names.

RankCompanyWeightWeight bar
1 EWJ iShares MSCI Japan ETF 102.94%
2 8306 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group 4.93%
3 7203 Toyota Motor 3.63%
4 8316 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group 3.17%
5 8035 Tokyo Electron 2.91%
6 6501 Hitachi 2.91%
7 6857 Advantest 2.9%
8 6758 Sony Group 2.78%
9 6098 Recruit Holdings Ltd 2.68%
10 8411 Mizuho Financial Group 2.49%
11 285A Kioxia Holdings 2.44%
12 9984 Softbank Group 2.28%
13 8058 Mitsubishi 1.9%
14 6861 Keyence 1.81%
15 8766 Tokio Marine Holdings 1.75%
16 9983 Fast Retailing 1.53%
17 8031 Mitsui 1.53%
18 8001 Itochu 1.51%
19 7011 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 1.49%
20 6981 Murata Manufacturing 1.37%
21 6503 Mitsubishi Electric 1.24%
22 6752 Panasonic Holdings 1.2%
23 7974 Nintendo 1.19%
24 4063 Shin Etsu Chemical 1.18%
25 4502 Takeda Pharmaceutical 1.16%

Issuer file 1 day old on 2026-09-04, against a median of 1 across the funds with a page. Every one of the 168 positions with its weight is in the fund's JSON file. See which other ETFs hold EWJ, and at what weight.

What does HEWJ duplicate?

The fund nearest to HEWJ is EWJ: the two hold 99.8% of their weight in common, in the 167 companies both own, and 49.9% of HEWJ itself is also held there. Owning HEWJ alongside the funds at the top of this table means holding mostly the same companies twice.

FundOverlap by weightOf HEWJ held thereOf that fund in HEWJCompanies in bothOverlap bar
EWJ 99.8% 49.9% 100.0% 167
JPXN 76.6% 45.3% 85.0% 145
EWJV 58.7% 29.4% 100.0% 108
IPAC 55.7% 49.9% 56.0% 167
VPL 42.9% 49.9% 42.9% 167
DMXF 30.1% 31.2% 30.3% 113
IVLU 29.9% 28.4% 30.7% 102
VIGI 27.8% 14.3% 28.7% 37
EFV 24.2% 29.4% 24.4% 108
HEFA 24.2% 49.9% 12.0% 167
EFA 24.1% 49.9% 24.2% 167
EFAX 24.0% 45.8% 24.1% 156

From each issuer's latest file. Check HEWJ against any fund in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.

What adds something different to HEWJ?

VDE shares 0% of weight with HEWJ and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.23 over three years. The table lists the covered funds with the least in common with HEWJ, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.

Cost, returns and risk

Expense ratio0.49%
Dividend yield3.56%
Total return, 1 year41.4%
Total return, 3 years cumulative107.6%
Total return, 5 years cumulative157.4%
Volatility, annualised20.3%
Worst fall, 3 years-16.2%
Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns0.95
Weight in the ten largest positions131.3%
Largest single position102.9%
Assets under management$0.8B

Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data; every other figure is computed here from weekly closes.

How it moves with the market

AgainstCorrelation, 3 yearsCovariance, annualised, in percent squared
SPY0.67loosely linked197
QQQ0.64loosely linked254

Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.

Year by year

YearTotal return
202624.4%
202530.2%
202424.8%
202336.2%
2022-4.4%

One year

HEWJ 138 SPY 118
2025-09-122026-09-04
HEWJ rebased to 100 a year ago, weekly closes, prices through 2026-09-04.

Where to go next

Holdings from the issuer file published 2026-09-03. Prices through 2026-09-04. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.