EWY Korea ETF (EWY)
Korea · Benchmark: Index Benchmark · Domiciled in US
VMCI-Composite holdings score
ValueMarkers builds the VMCI-Composite by taking the underlying VMCI score for each of the ETF's top-10 holdings and weighting it by the holding's share of the fund. The number summarizes the fundamentals of the largest positions on the five-pillar framework — Value, Quality, Integrity, Growth, Risk.
EWY Korea ETF — analysis
EWY's headline numbers: $404.2B AUM, 11 bps expense ratio, 1999 inception. Category: Korea. Benchmark: Index Benchmark. EWY Korea ETF is the issuer-titled fund managed against that index since launch.
EWY VMCI-Composite: 57/100. The metric weighs the underlying companies' VMCI by their fund weight (top 10), so it captures whether the index methodology is selecting fundamentally cheaper, higher-quality, or lower-risk names. Read: mid-table composite quality.
Trailing total return on EWY: 6.8% 5y CAGR. The Index Benchmark index returned 7.0% per year over the same window, leaving the fund below index by -0.2 pp annualized.
Income line on EWY: 1.30% trailing yield, 6.8% 5-year distribution CAGR. The starting yield combined with the growth rate is the standard back-of-envelope for total-income compounding inside the fund.
Holdings detail for EWY: 31% in top 10 (AAPL 3.84% the largest), with Technology at 32% of the allocation. The remaining sector mix spreads across 11 categories.
For a korea allocation, the comparable trio to EWY is SPY, VOO, VTI. The screener and ETF browse pages on ValueMarkers let you sort all four side-by-side on AUM, cost, return, and yield.
Top 25 holdings
| # | Ticker | Weight | VMCI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAPL | 3.84% | 53 |
| 2 | MSFT | 3.70% | 81 |
| 3 | NVDA | 3.55% | 50 |
| 4 | AMZN | 3.22% | 57 |
| 5 | GOOGL | 3.17% | 43 |
| 6 | META | 3.07% | 44 |
| 7 | BRK-B | 2.79% | 65 |
| 8 | TSLA | 2.55% | 73 |
| 9 | V | 2.55% | 45 |
| 10 | JPM | 2.45% | 64 |
| 11 | UNH | 2.16% | 70 |
| 12 | XOM | 1.97% | 57 |
| 13 | JNJ | 2.11% | 49 |
| 14 | PG | 1.97% | 68 |
| 15 | MA | 1.83% | 41 |
| 16 | HD | 1.49% | 49 |
| 17 | MRK | 1.25% | 83 |
| 18 | AVGO | 1.39% | 56 |
| 19 | PEP | 1.25% | 42 |
| 20 | COST | 1.10% | 84 |
| 21 | KO | 0.77% | 83 |
| 22 | WMT | 0.53% | 71 |
| 23 | BAC | 0.53% | 51 |
| 24 | CVX | 0.43% | 44 |
| 25 | ADBE | 0.34% | 63 |
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