ETF comparison
IGRO vs VIGI
Both Dividend.
iShares International Dividend Growth ETF · Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
222 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGRO and VIGI would leave roughly 46.7% 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
VIGI is 8 bps cheaper than IGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for IGRO.
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 IGRO vs VIGI.
Top shared holdings
222 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGRO | In VIGI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nestle S.A. | 3.08% | 3.66% | 3.08% |
| 2 | Novartis AG | 3.06% | 3.48% | 3.06% |
| 3 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 2.90% | 4.78% | 2.90% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 2.81% | 3.45% | 2.81% |
| 5 | NOVO NORDISK A/S | 2.81% | 2.61% | 2.61% |
| 6 | THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK | 2.33% | 3.47% | 2.33% |
| 7 | Iberdrola, S.A. | 2.18% | 2.57% | 2.18% |
| 8 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 2.06% | 4.59% | 2.06% |
| 9 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 1.30% | 2.85% | 1.30% |
| 10 | CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE | 1.22% | 1.89% | 1.22% |
| 11 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.18% | 3.16% | 1.18% |
| 12 | AIA Group Limited | 1.08% | 1.82% | 1.08% |
Only in IGRO
328 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 3.18%
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. 2.98%
- SANOFI SA 2.18%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 2.18%
- AXA SA 2.05%
- ENEL - SPA 1.89%
- NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED 1.61%
- WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION 1.58%
- UBS Group AG 1.46%
- VINCI SA 1.24%
Only in VIGI
119 total- Brookfield Corp 1.57%
- National Bank of Canada 1.08%
- Sandoz Group AG 0.62%
- Nutrien Ltd 0.57%
- Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd 0.48%
- Restaurant Brands International Inc 0.44%
- America Movil SAB de CV 0.40%
- Hexagon AB 0.36%
- Gulf Development PCL 0.25%
- Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corp Ltd 0.24%
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- IGRO vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 2.1%
More comparisons with VIGI
- VIGI vs VYMI · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- VIGI vs SCHY · Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF 4.7%
- VIGI vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 2.1%
- VIGI vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 0.4%
- VIGI vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.2%
- VIGI vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.1%
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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