ETF comparison
ACWX vs VSGX
Both International Total.
iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
1,317 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWX and VSGX would leave roughly 70.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VSGX is 22 bps cheaper than ACWX. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/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 VSGX.
Top shared holdings
1,317 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWX | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 4.93% | 5.46% | 4.93% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 2.20% | 3.00% | 2.20% |
| 3 | ASML Holding N.V. | 1.73% | 1.90% | 1.73% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc. | 1.70% | 2.55% | 1.70% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.83% | 0.90% | 0.83% |
| 6 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.79% | 0.81% | 0.79% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.77% | 0.87% | 0.77% |
| 8 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.70% | 0.84% | 0.70% |
| 9 | Nestle S.A. | 0.70% | 0.79% | 0.70% |
| 10 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.69% | 0.84% | 0.69% |
| 11 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.66% | 0.70% | 0.66% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.65% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
Only in ACWX
552 total- Tencent Holdings Limited 1.02%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.98%
- SHELL PLC 0.69%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.58%
- THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 0.54%
- SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE 0.50%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 0.47%
- ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC 0.45%
- ABB Ltd 0.42%
- Iberdrola, S.A. 0.40%
Only in VSGX
5,246 total- L'Oreal SA 0.18%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.12%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.09%
- Sampo Oyj 0.07%
- Investor AB 0.06%
- Winbond Electronics Corp 0.05%
- Telecom Italia SpA/Milano 0.04%
- LG Innotek Co Ltd 0.04%
- Phison Electronics Corp 0.04%
- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.04%
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- ACWX vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 31.8%
- ACWX vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 24.7%
- ACWX vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 24.3%
More comparisons with VSGX
- VSGX vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 64.8%
- VSGX vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 55.9%
- VSGX vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 53.2%
- VSGX vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 48.6%
- VSGX vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 35.2%
- VSGX vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 27.9%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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