ETF comparison
HEFA vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HEFA and VXUS would leave roughly 0.0% 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 30 bps cheaper than HEFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for HEFA.
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 HEFA vs VXUS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in HEFA
1 total- iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 101.20%
Only in VXUS
8,736 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- 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%
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- VXUS vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 81.3%
- VXUS vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 71.9%
- VXUS vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 71.1%
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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