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HEWJ holdings and overlap
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.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight 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% | |
| 26 | 9433 KDDI | 1.06% | |
| 27 | 7741 Hoya | 1.01% | |
| 28 | 2914 Japan Tobacco | 0.94% | |
| 29 | 8053 Sumitomo | 0.92% | |
| 30 | 5803 Fujikura | 0.92% | |
| 31 | 8002 Marubeni | 0.88% | |
| 32 | 8591 Orix | 0.86% | |
| 33 | 9434 Softbank | 0.84% | |
| 34 | 8750 Daiichi Life Group | 0.8% | |
| 35 | 6301 Komatsu | 0.79% | |
| 36 | 6702 Fujitsu | 0.79% | |
| 37 | 7267 Honda Motor | 0.77% | |
| 38 | 8725 MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings | 0.76% | |
| 39 | 7182 Japan Post Bank Ltd | 0.75% | |
| 40 | 5802 Sumitomo Electric Industries | 0.74% | |
| 41 | 6701 Nec | 0.7% | |
| 42 | 6723 Renesas Electronics Corp | 0.7% | |
| 43 | 8630 Sompo Holdings | 0.69% | |
| 44 | 6954 Fanuc Corp | 0.66% | |
| 45 | 6762 TDK | 0.66% | |
| 46 | 8308 Resona Holdings | 0.65% | |
| 47 | 9432 NTT | 0.64% | |
| 48 | 6367 Daikin Industries Ltd | 0.64% | |
| 49 | 4578 Otsuka Holdings | 0.63% | |
| 50 | 8015 Toyota Tsusho | 0.6% | |
| 51 | 8604 Nomura Holdings | 0.59% | |
| 52 | 4568 Daiichi Sankyo Ltd | 0.59% | |
| 53 | 6146 Disco Corp | 0.58% | |
| 54 | 4519 Chugai Pharmaceutical Ltd | 0.57% | |
| 55 | 4062 Ibiden Ltd | 0.56% | |
| 56 | 8309 Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group | 0.55% | |
| 57 | 2802 Ajinomoto | 0.55% | |
| 58 | 5108 Bridgestone | 0.53% | |
| 59 | 4503 Astellas Pharma | 0.51% | |
| 60 | 6971 Kyocera | 0.51% | |
| 61 | 6178 Japan Post Holdings Ltd | 0.48% | |
| 62 | 8802 Mitsubishi Estate Co Ltd | 0.48% | |
| 63 | 3382 Seven & I Holdings | 0.47% | |
| 64 | 8801 Mitsui Fudosan | 0.47% | |
| 65 | 7751 Canon | 0.46% | |
| 66 | 4901 Fujifilm Holdings | 0.45% | |
| 67 | 6273 SMC (Japan) Corp | 0.45% | |
| 68 | 5020 Eneos Holdings | 0.43% | |
| 69 | 1605 Inpex | 0.42% | |
| 70 | 9020 East Japan Railway | 0.42% | |
| 71 | 5401 Nippon Steel | 0.42% | |
| 72 | 4661 Oriental Land | 0.41% | |
| 73 | 7269 Suzuki Motor | 0.41% | |
| 74 | 4543 Terumo | 0.4% | |
| 75 | 4452 Kao | 0.4% | |
| 76 | 6902 Denso | 0.38% | |
| 77 | 8267 Aeon | 0.37% | |
| 78 | 9022 Central Japan Railway | 0.36% | |
| 79 | 9503 Kansai Electric Power | 0.35% | |
| 80 | 7936 Asics | 0.35% | |
| 81 | 7832 Bandai Namco Holdings Inc | 0.35% | |
| 82 | 4004 Resonac Holdings | 0.34% | |
| 83 | 6326 Kubota | 0.34% | |
| 84 | 9101 Nippon Yusen | 0.34% | |
| 85 | 1925 Daiwa House Industry | 0.33% | |
| 86 | 6920 Lasertec | 0.32% | |
| 87 | 7013 Ihi | 0.32% | |
| 88 | 9735 Secom | 0.32% | |
| 89 | 5713 Sumitomo Metal Mining | 0.3% | |
| 90 | 9104 Mitsui Osk Lines Ltd | 0.3% | |
| 91 | 5801 Furukawa Electric Ltd | 0.29% | |
| 92 | 2502 Asahi Group Holdings | 0.29% | |
| 93 | 8601 Daiwa Securities Group Inc | 0.29% | |
| 94 | 6988 Nitto Denko | 0.28% | |
| 95 | 2503 Kirin Holdings | 0.28% | |
| 96 | 4507 Shionogi | 0.28% | |
| 97 | 7733 Olympus | 0.27% | |
| 98 | 8795 T&D Holdings | 0.26% | |
| 99 | 7453 Ryohin Keikaku | 0.26% | |
| 100 | 8697 Japan Exchange Group | 0.26% |
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.
| Fund | Overlap by weight | Of HEWJ held there | Of that fund in HEWJ | Companies in both | Overlap 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.
| Fund | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VDE | Vanguard Energy ETF | 0.0% | 0.23 | 0 |
| VOE | Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF | 0.0% | 0.54 | 0 |
| VTWO | Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF | 0.0% | 0.58 | 0 |
| VXF | Vanguard Extended Market ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| VGK | Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| VOT | Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| VONV | Vanguard Russell 1000 Value ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| VONG | Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF | 0.0% | 0.62 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.49% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 3.56% |
| Total return, 1 year | 41.4% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 107.6% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 157.4% |
| Volatility, annualised | 20.3% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -16.2% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.95 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 131.3% |
| Largest single position | 102.9% |
| 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
| Against | Correlation, 3 years | Covariance, annualised, in percent squared |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 0.67loosely linked | 197 |
| QQQ | 0.64loosely linked | 254 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 24.4% |
| 2025 | 30.2% |
| 2024 | 24.8% |
| 2023 | 36.2% |
| 2022 | -4.4% |
One year
Where to go next
- JPXN, iShares JPX-Nikkei 400 ETF
- SCJ, iShares MSCI Japan Small-Cap ETF
- EWJ, iShares MSCI Japan ETF
- EWJV, iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what HEWJ carries once you look through it
- Compare HEWJ against any other fund in the builder
Holdings from the issuer file published 2026-09-03. Prices through 2026-09-04. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.