ETF comparison
CWI vs VT
International Total vs Global Stock (incl. US).
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,104 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and VT would leave roughly 26.2% 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 24 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for CWI.
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 CWI vs VT.
Top shared holdings
1,104 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.12% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.89% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 4 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.95% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 0.79% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.52% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | Shell PLC | 0.60% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 10 | Nestle SA | 0.72% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.76% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.61% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in CWI
28 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.30%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.19%
- Vale SA 0.14%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.10%
- Sea Ltd 0.09%
- Rogers Communications Inc 0.06%
- Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 0.06%
- CCL Industries Inc 0.03%
Only in VT
8,946 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%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
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- CWI vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 24.1%
- CWI vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 20.4%
- CWI vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- CWI vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 74.7%
- CWI vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 69.6%
- CWI vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 67.7%
More comparisons with VT
- VT vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 25.6%
- VT vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 25.3%
- VT vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 24.6%
- VT vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 23.1%
- VT vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 23.0%
- VT vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 22.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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