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DEM vs VUG

Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.

WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DEM and VUG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DEM unmatched 99.1% Shared 0.0% VUG unmatched 100.0%

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.

In DEM only
516 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VUG only
146 positions

Side by side

DEM

WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund

WisdomTree · Dividend

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.63%
Net assets
$4.16B
TTM yield
4.10%
Top-10 conc.
26.8%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$392.07B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.40%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

37
Cost
97
72
Tax efficiency
90
83
Liquidity
100
76
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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DEM sub-score VUG

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

Cost difference

VUG is 60 bps cheaper than DEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $600/yr more in fees for DEM.

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 DEM vs VUG.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in DEM

516 total
  • MEDIATEK INC 6.71%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORP 4.04%
  • UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP 3.14%
  • INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LTD (THE) 2.45%
  • SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY 1.89%
  • GRUPO FINANCIERO BANORTE SAB DE CV 1.78%
  • ORLEN SA 1.65%
  • QUANTA COMPUTER INC 1.59%
  • FOMENTO ECONOMICO MEXICANO SAB DE CV 1.48%
  • POWSZECHNA KASA OSZCZEDNOSCI BANK POLSKI SA 1.48%

Only in VUG

146 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
  • Apple Inc 11.67%
  • Microsoft Corp 7.61%
  • Alphabet Inc 5.76%
  • Alphabet Inc 4.53%
  • Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
  • Broadcom Inc 4.28%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
  • Tesla Inc 3.27%
  • Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%

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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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