ETF comparison
DFAX vs VSGX
Both International Total.
Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
5,009 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAX and VSGX would leave roughly 48.6% 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
VSGX is 18 bps cheaper than DFAX. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/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 VSGX.
Top shared holdings
5,009 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAX | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 1.87% | 5.46% | 1.87% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.34% | 3.00% | 1.34% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 0.81% | 2.55% | 0.81% |
| 4 | Nestle S.A. | 0.40% | 0.79% | 0.40% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.39% | 0.90% | 0.39% |
| 6 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.38% | 0.61% | 0.38% |
| 7 | Allianz SE | 0.30% | 0.51% | 0.30% |
| 8 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.27% | 0.63% | 0.27% |
| 9 | Deutsche Telekom AG | 0.26% | 0.35% | 0.26% |
| 10 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 0.26% | 0.36% | 0.26% |
| 11 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.26% | 0.81% | 0.26% |
| 12 | UNICREDIT, SOCIETA PER AZIONI | 0.24% | 0.40% | 0.24% |
Only in DFAX
5,375 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 0.99%
- Novartis AG 0.67%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.62%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 0.54%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.49%
- SHELL PLC 0.48%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.29%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.28%
- BP P.L.C. 0.25%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.25%
Only in VSGX
1,554 total- SoftBank Group Corp 0.56%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.33%
- SK Square Co Ltd 0.23%
- Investor AB 0.22%
- L'Oreal SA 0.18%
- Goodman Group 0.14%
- Japan Post Bank Co Ltd 0.10%
- Power Corp of Canada 0.10%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.09%
- 3i Group PLC 0.09%
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- VSGX vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 19.8%
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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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