ETF comparison
ESGD vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
130 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGD and VPL would leave roughly 29.1% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VPL is 13 bps cheaper than ESGD. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for ESGD.
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 ESGD vs VPL.
Top shared holdings
130 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGD | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.92% | 1.77% | 0.92% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.90% | 1.72% | 0.90% |
| 3 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 0.85% | 0.96% | 0.85% |
| 4 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.82% | 2.00% | 0.82% |
| 5 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 0.81% | 1.21% | 0.81% |
| 6 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 0.81% | 1.28% | 0.81% |
| 7 | Sony Group Corporation | 0.79% | 1.14% | 0.79% |
| 8 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 0.77% | 1.19% | 0.77% |
| 9 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.66% | 1.66% | 0.66% |
| 10 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 0.62% | 1.01% | 0.62% |
| 11 | Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. | 0.59% | 0.88% | 0.59% |
| 12 | ITOCHU Corporation | 0.58% | 0.65% | 0.58% |
Only in ESGD
229 total- ASML Holding N.V. 3.11%
- Novartis AG 1.58%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.38%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1.24%
- Roche Holding AG 1.20%
- Nestle S.A. 1.13%
- ABB Ltd 1.13%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.10%
- SAP SE 1.03%
- SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE 1.00%
Only in VPL
2,207 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
- SK hynix Inc 5.18%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.83%
- Kioxia Holdings Corp 0.77%
- Mitsui & Co Ltd 0.62%
- SK Square Co Ltd 0.51%
- Japan Tobacco Inc 0.40%
- Rio Tinto Ltd 0.36%
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd 0.35%
- Goodman Group 0.34%
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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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