ETF comparison
FEZ vs VGK
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FEZ and VGK would leave roughly 30.7% 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
VGK is 23 bps cheaper than FEZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/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 VGK.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In FEZ | In VGK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 10.39% | 3.95% | 3.95% |
| 2 | Siemens AG | 4.66% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 3 | Banco Santander SA | 4.01% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 4 | Allianz SE | 3.56% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 5 | SAP SE | 3.06% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 6 | Schneider Electric SE | 3.72% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 7 | TotalEnergies SE | 3.50% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 8 | Iberdrola SA | 3.10% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 9 | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA | 2.78% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 10 | UniCredit SpA | 2.67% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 11 | Airbus SE | 2.59% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 12 | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE | 2.70% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
Only in FEZ
0 totalEvery FEZ position is also held by VGK.
Only in VGK
1,178 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 2.27%
- Roche Holding AG 1.91%
- Novartis AG 1.81%
- Nestle SA 1.60%
- AstraZeneca PLC 1.59%
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 1.04%
- UBS Group AG 1.03%
- ABB Ltd 0.95%
- Novo Nordisk A/S 0.94%
- Unilever PLC 0.83%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.