ETF comparison
ESGD vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
351 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGD and VXUS would leave roughly 37.8% 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
VXUS is 15 bps cheaper than ESGD. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
351 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGD | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 3.11% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.38% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 3 | Roche Holding AG | 1.20% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 1.58% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 5 | Nestle S.A. | 1.13% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 6 | SHELL PLC | 0.88% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 7 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.10% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 8 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.82% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 9 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.24% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 10 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.90% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 11 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.66% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 12 | Allianz SE | 0.68% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
Only in ESGD
8 total- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.26%
- TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.14%
- Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft 0.09%
- SEA LIMITED 0.09%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 0.09%
- CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. 0.08%
- OCTAVE INTELLIGENCE PLC 0.02%
- CYBERARK SOFTWARE LTD 0.02%
Only in VXUS
8,385 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.46%
- MediaTek Inc 0.36%
- Bank of Montreal 0.29%
- Cie Financiere Richemont SA 0.29%
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- ESGD vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 30.5%
- ESGD vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 29.1%
- ESGD vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 24.3%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 37.0%
- VXUS vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 35.5%
- VXUS vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 34.6%
- VXUS vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 32.2%
- VXUS vs BBEU · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF 30.3%
- VXUS vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 29.9%
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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