ETF comparison
ACWX vs VEU
Both International Total.
iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,657 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWX and VEU would leave roughly 88.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VEU is 28 bps cheaper than ACWX. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for ACWX.
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 ACWX vs VEU.
Top shared holdings
1,657 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWX | In VEU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 4.67% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.95% | 1.81% | 1.81% |
| 3 | ASML Holding N.V. | 1.54% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc. | 1.33% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 5 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 1.07% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 6 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.86% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 7 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.79% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 8 | Roche Holding AG | 0.78% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 9 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.80% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 10 | Novartis AG | 0.76% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 11 | Nestle S.A. | 0.71% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 12 | SHELL PLC | 0.71% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
Only in ACWX
71 total- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.19%
- Nu Holdings Ltd. 0.13%
- TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.11%
- SEA LIMITED 0.10%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.08%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.08%
- AerCap Holdings N.V. 0.07%
- CREDICORP LTD. 0.06%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.04%
- ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC. 0.04%
Only in VEU
2,193 total- Air Liquide SA 0.19%
- L'Oreal SA 0.17%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.11%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.10%
- Engie SA 0.08%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.07%
- Amrize Ltd 0.07%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.07%
- Investor AB 0.05%
- Furukawa Electric Co Ltd 0.05%
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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