ETF comparison
HEDJ vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
126 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HEDJ and VXUS would leave roughly 8.2% 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
VXUS is 53 bps cheaper than HEDJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/yr more in fees for HEDJ.
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 HEDJ vs VXUS.
Top shared holdings
126 shared in total| # | Holding | In HEDJ | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML HOLDING NV | 7.50% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 2 | SIEMENS AG | 4.19% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 3 | SAP SE | 1.40% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 4 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.88% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 5 | BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA SA | 6.34% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 6 | AIRBUS SE | 0.97% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 7 | LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE | 3.96% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 8 | SAFRAN SA | 0.80% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 9 | DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG | 3.17% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG | 0.88% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 11 | SANOFI SA | 3.49% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV SA/NV | 2.62% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in HEDJ
4 total- AMG CRITICAL MATERIALS NV 0.11%
- FERRETTI SPA 0.09%
- ACS ACTIVIDADES DE CONSTRUCCION Y SERVICIOS SA 0.03%
- VISCOFAN INDUSTRIA NAVARRA DE ENVOLTURA CELULOSICAS SA 0.01%
Only in VXUS
8,610 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
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- HEDJ vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 3.3%
- HEDJ vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 3.3%
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- VXUS vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 7.9%
- VXUS vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 7.9%
- VXUS vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 7.5%
- VXUS vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 7.1%
- VXUS vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 6.8%
- VXUS vs EWC · iShares MSCI Canada ETF 6.4%
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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