ETF comparison
SPDW vs VEA
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,218 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPDW and VEA would leave roughly 85.0% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SPDW vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
2,218 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPDW | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.28% | 2.36% | 2.28% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.79% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.97% | 1.00% | 0.97% |
| 4 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.87% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.86% | 0.89% | 0.86% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.86% | 0.90% | 0.86% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.86% | 0.90% | 0.86% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.80% | 0.82% | 0.80% |
| 9 | Siemens AG | 0.70% | 0.73% | 0.70% |
| 10 | Shell PLC | 0.68% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.72% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 12 | Tokyo Electron Ltd | 0.67% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
Only in SPDW
210 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.21%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.15%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.11%
- Sea Ltd 0.10%
- AerCap Holdings NV 0.08%
- Ryanair Holdings PLC 0.06%
- POSCO Holdings Inc 0.05%
- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd 0.05%
- IREN Ltd 0.05%
Only in VEA
1,644 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Air Liquide SA 0.22%
- L'Oreal SA 0.18%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.12%
- Engie SA 0.09%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.09%
- Amrize Ltd 0.08%
- Sampo Oyj 0.08%
- Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA 0.07%
- Lenovo Group Ltd 0.07%
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- SPDW vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 84.8%
- SPDW vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 83.1%
- SPDW vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 74.7%
- SPDW vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 68.7%
- SPDW vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 68.6%
- SPDW vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 67.3%
More comparisons with VEA
- VEA vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 83.2%
- VEA vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 75.3%
- VEA vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 71.7%
- VEA vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 71.3%
- VEA vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 71.3%
- VEA vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock 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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