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EWT vs SHY: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, EWT returned +69.9% to SHY's +1.6%; 0% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $12.0bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF, and $27.4bn on Oct 27, 2026 for iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF.

EWT on its own →SHY on its own →
At a glance
+69.9%
EWT total return, 1 year
+1.6%
SHY total return, 1 year
0.59%
EWT expense ratio
0.15%
SHY expense ratio

Pair scorecard

SHY costs 0.44 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 68.3 points; SHY is 2.3 times larger.

EWT vs SHY: Differences, Returns & Fees
MeasureEWTSHY
Return
Total return, 1 year+69.9%+1.6%
Drawdown
Below its high7.7%, high on Oct 5, 2026
Benchmark
What it tracksMSCI Taiwan 25/50 IndexICE U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Bond Index
Cost and size
Expense ratio0.59%0.15%
Net assets, as of Oct 27, 2026$11.8bn$27.4bn
Holdings
Holdings in common0%
In the S&P 500, by weight0%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund47.7%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 27, 2026. Method

What they share

0%

By the books each fund has filed, EWT and SHY hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Oct 27, 2026.

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0% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first EWT SHY
Only in one fund ↓
Only in EWT
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING 22.12%
MEDIATEK 6.03%
HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY 3.31%
DELTA ELECTRONICS 3.25%
ASE TECHNOLOGY HOLDING 2.86%
NAN YA PLASTICS CORP 2.54%
UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY 2.04%
ELITE MATERIAL 1.88%
Only in SHY
TREASURY NOTE 2.11%
TREASURY NOTE 1.99%
TREASURY NOTE 1.83%
TREASURY NOTE 1.73%
TREASURY NOTE 1.62%
TREASURY NOTE 1.54%
TREASURY NOTE 1.51%
TREASURY NOTE 1.49%
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Side by side

EWT iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF SHY iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Bond ETF
Issuer iShares iShares
What it is Tracks the MSCI Taiwan Tracks an index of 1-3 Year Treasury Bond
Total return, 1 year +69.9% +1.6%
Its benchmark over the same days +16.3% (EEM) +1.7% (BBSB)
Gap to its benchmark +53.6 pts vs EEM −0.1 pts vs BBSB
Expense ratio 0.59% 0.15%
Holdings 79 90
Net assets, EWT as of Oct 28, 2026 and SHY as of Oct 27, 2026 $12.0bn $27.4bn

EWT and SHY on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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About each fund
EWT

EWT tracks the MSCI Taiwan. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +69.9% with distributions reinvested, against +16.3% for its benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.59% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 0% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 79 positions, with the top ten at 47.7%. It sat 7.7% below its high of Oct 5, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

SHY

SHY tracks an index of 1-3 Year Treasury Bond. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +1.6% with distributions reinvested, against +1.7% for its benchmark, the ICE U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Bond Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.15% a year.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, EWT or SHY?
In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, EWT returned +69.9% and SHY +1.6%.
Which is cheaper, EWT or SHY?
SHY is cheaper, by 0.44 percentage points a year. That is about $44 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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Where to next
EWT on its own →SHY on its own →Hold both: look the portfolio through →Rankings →EWT dividend history →EWT holdings →SHY dividend history →SHY holdings →Standards and sources →
Sources and dates
EWT filings on SEC EDGAR ↗
EWT prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗
iShares page for EWT ↗
SHY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗
SHY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗
iShares page for SHY ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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