ETF comparison
ACWX vs VT
International Total vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,820 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWX and VT would leave roughly 31.9% 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
VT is 26 bps cheaper than ACWX. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 VT.
Top shared holdings
1,820 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWX | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 4.93% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 2.20% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | ASML Holding N.V. | 1.73% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc. | 1.70% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 5 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 1.02% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.98% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.77% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.79% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.69% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Roche Holding AG | 0.83% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 11 | SHELL PLC | 0.69% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Nestle S.A. | 0.70% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in ACWX
49 total- TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.11%
- SEA LIMITED 0.11%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.07%
- HonPrecision Inc 0.04%
- ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC. 0.03%
- ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.03%
- PTT Public Company Limited 0.03%
- CCL INDUSTRIES INC. 0.02%
- H World Group Limited 0.02%
- GULF DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.02%
Only in VT
8,230 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.80%
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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%
- ACWX vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 88.9%
- ACWX vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 86.4%
- ACWX vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 81.3%
More comparisons with VT
- VT vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 30.5%
- VT vs JGLO · Jpmorgan Global Select Equity ETF 28.7%
- VT vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 27.5%
- VT vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
- VT vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 26.2%
- VT vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 25.6%
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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