ETF comparison
FEZ vs VEA
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FEZ and VEA would leave roughly 15.4% 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
VEA is 26 bps cheaper than FEZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for FEZ.
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 FEZ vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In FEZ | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 10.39% | 2.36% | 2.36% |
| 2 | Siemens AG | 4.66% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 3 | Banco Santander SA | 4.01% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 4 | Allianz SE | 3.56% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 5 | Schneider Electric SE | 3.72% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 6 | Iberdrola SA | 3.10% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 7 | SAP SE | 3.06% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 8 | TotalEnergies SE | 3.50% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 9 | Siemens Energy AG | 3.05% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 10 | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA | 2.78% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 11 | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE | 2.70% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 12 | Safran SA | 2.88% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
Only in FEZ
0 totalEvery FEZ position is also held by VEA.
Only in VEA
3,812 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Shell PLC 0.67%
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More comparisons with FEZ
- FEZ vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 15.4%
- FEZ vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 14.5%
- FEZ vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 13.9%
- FEZ vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 12.0%
- FEZ vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 11.6%
- FEZ vs EWP · iShares MSCI Spain ETF 11.3%
More comparisons with VEA
- VEA vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 14.3%
- VEA vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 13.0%
- VEA vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 12.0%
- VEA vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 10.6%
- VEA vs JGLO · Jpmorgan Global Select Equity ETF 10.2%
- VEA vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 9.6%
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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