ETF comparison
DFAE vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3,837 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAE and VT would leave roughly 11.1% 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 23 bps cheaper than DFAE. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for DFAE.
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 DFAE vs VT.
Top shared holdings
3,837 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAE | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 13.19% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 5.17% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 4.54% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.57% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.20% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.97% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.77% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.62% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.31% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.10% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.40% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in DFAE
2,431 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.67%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.45%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.39%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.35%
- VALE S.A. 0.29%
- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 0.24%
- Gold Fields Limited 0.21%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.15%
- America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V. 0.12%
- NETEASE, INC. 0.09%
Only in VT
6,213 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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- VT vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 9.8%
- VT vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 9.5%
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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