ETF comparison
CWI vs VXUS
Both International Total.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,089 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and VXUS would leave roughly 63.8% 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
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
1,089 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.12% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.89% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 4 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.95% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.79% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.72% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 9 | Shell PLC | 0.60% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 10 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.76% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.61% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | Siemens AG | 0.69% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
Only in CWI
43 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.30%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.25%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.19%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.19%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.16%
- Vale SA 0.14%
- Nebius Group NV 0.12%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.12%
Only in VXUS
7,647 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.21%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.21%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.18%
- Air Liquide SA 0.18%
- L'Oreal SA 0.15%
- Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF 0.12%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.10%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.10%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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