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CWI vs VXUS

Both International Total.

State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
62.7 %

1,070 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and VXUS would leave roughly 62.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

CWI only 36.4% Shared 62.7% VXUS only 34.5%
In CWI only
38 positions
Shared
1,070 positions
In VXUS only
7,658 positions

Side by side

CWI

State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF

State Street · International Total

76 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.30%
Net assets
$2.78B
TTM yield
2.71%
Top-10 conc.
16.3%
VXUS

Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Total

93 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.050%
Net assets
$650.32B
TTM yield
2.58%
Top-10 conc.
13.4%

Sub-score comparison

70
Cost
95
78
Tax efficiency
78
76
Liquidity
100
91
Concentration
95
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Tracking quality
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CWI sub-score VXUS

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VXUS is 25 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/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 VXUS.

Top shared holdings

1,070 shared in total
# Holding In CWI In VXUS Overlap
1 ASML Holding NV 1.57% 1.30% 1.30%
2 Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.13% 0.87% 0.87%
3 SK hynix Inc 0.86% 1.12% 0.86%
4 HSBC Holdings PLC 0.93% 0.74% 0.74%
5 Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75% 0.69% 0.69%
6 Roche Holding AG 0.88% 0.67% 0.67%
7 AstraZeneca PLC 0.89% 0.66% 0.66%
8 Novartis AG 0.89% 0.66% 0.66%
9 Nestle SA 0.80% 0.61% 0.61%
10 Shell PLC 0.95% 0.60% 0.60%
11 Royal Bank of Canada 0.83% 0.59% 0.59%
12 Siemens AG 0.58% 0.51% 0.51%

Only in CWI

38 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.13%
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.73%
  • Reliance Industries Ltd 0.29%
  • Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.24%
  • Spotify Technology SA 0.23%
  • ICICI Bank Ltd 0.19%
  • Vale SA 0.17%
  • Infosys Ltd 0.16%
  • NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.14%
  • Credicorp Ltd 0.12%

Only in VXUS

7,658 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 3.93%
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.65%
  • Reliance Industries Ltd 0.24%
  • Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.20%
  • Air Liquide SA 0.18%
  • ICICI Bank Ltd 0.16%
  • L'Oreal SA 0.15%
  • Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF 0.12%
  • Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.11%
  • Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.10%

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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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