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EWG vs VT

International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).

iShares MSCI Germany ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
1.7 %

50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWG and VT would leave roughly 1.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWG unmatched 97.8% Shared 1.7% VT unmatched 97.4%

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.

In EWG only
4 positions
Shared
50 positions
In VT only
10,000 positions

Side by side

EWG

iShares MSCI Germany ETF

iShares · International Developed

56 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$1.47B
TTM yield
2.03%
Top-10 conc.
62.4%
VT

Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Global Stock (incl. US)

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$101.18B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
1.55%
Top-10 conc.
21.5%

Sub-score comparison

51
Cost
94
79
Tax efficiency
85
64
Liquidity
100
25
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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EWG sub-score VT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VT is 43 bps cheaper than EWG. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for EWG.

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 EWG vs VT.

Top shared holdings

50 shared in total
# Holding In EWG In VT Overlap
1 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 11.97% 0.21% 0.21%
2 SAP SE 9.49% 0.16% 0.16%
3 Allianz SE 8.47% 0.16% 0.16%
4 Siemens Energy AG 7.37% 0.11% 0.11%
5 Deutsche Telekom AG 6.21% 0.09% 0.09%
6 Infineon Technologies AG 6.22% 0.08% 0.08%
7 Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Muenchen 3.45% 0.07% 0.07%
8 Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft 2.96% 0.06% 0.06%
9 Deutsche Post AG 2.75% 0.05% 0.05%
10 Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 3.48% 0.05% 0.05%
11 Deutsche Boerse Aktiengesellschaft 2.73% 0.05% 0.05%
12 Bayer Aktiengesellschaft 2.10% 0.05% 0.05%

Only in EWG

4 total
  • Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft 0.37%
  • Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 0.31%
  • Porsche Automobil Holding SE 0.29%
  • Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft 0.24%

Only in VT

10,000 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
  • Apple Inc 3.87%
  • Microsoft Corp 2.99%
  • Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.83%
  • Broadcom Inc 1.57%
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.44%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%

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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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