ETF comparison
DFIV vs VWO
International Total vs International Emerging.
Dimensional International Value ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFIV and VWO would leave roughly 0.0% 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
VWO is 21 bps cheaper than DFIV. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/yr more in fees for DFIV.
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 DFIV vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFIV | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VALTERRA PLATINUM LIMITED | 0.01% | 0.17% | 0.01% |
Only in DFIV
603 total- SHELL PLC 3.17%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 2.05%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 1.93%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1.78%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.27%
- BASF SE 1.21%
- SOCIETE GENERALE SA 1.05%
- LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC 1.01%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.01%
- BP P.L.C. 1.01%
Only in VWO
4,979 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
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- VWO vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 0.0%
- VWO vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 0.0%
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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