ETF comparison
DFAX vs VEU
Both International Total.
Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3,046 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAX and VEU would leave roughly 52.7% 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
VEU is 24 bps cheaper than DFAX. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for DFAX.
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 DFAX vs VEU.
Top shared holdings
3,046 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAX | In VEU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 1.87% | 4.43% | 1.87% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.34% | 1.99% | 1.34% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 0.81% | 1.56% | 0.81% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 0.49% | 0.95% | 0.49% |
| 5 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.54% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 0.40% | 0.64% | 0.40% |
| 7 | Roche Holding AG | 0.39% | 0.76% | 0.39% |
| 8 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.38% | 0.50% | 0.38% |
| 9 | Allianz SE | 0.30% | 0.47% | 0.30% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.27% | 0.60% | 0.27% |
| 11 | Deutsche Telekom AG | 0.26% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 12 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 0.26% | 0.36% | 0.26% |
Only in DFAX
7,338 total- Novartis AG 0.67%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.62%
- SHELL PLC 0.48%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.29%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.28%
- BP P.L.C. 0.25%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 0.22%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.16%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.15%
- GSK PLC 0.12%
Only in VEU
800 total- SoftBank Group Corp 0.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.25%
- Investor AB 0.19%
- Air Liquide SA 0.18%
- L'Oreal SA 0.16%
- SK Square Co Ltd 0.15%
- ORIX Corp 0.11%
- Goodman Group 0.10%
- 3i Group PLC 0.10%
- Power Corp of Canada 0.09%
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More comparisons with VEU
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- VEU vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 24.7%
- VEU vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 88.9%
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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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