ETF comparison
SPDW vs VGK
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF
Holdings overlap
816 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPDW and VGK would leave roughly 45.4% 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
SPDW is 3 bps cheaper than VGK. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VGK.
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 VGK.
Top shared holdings
816 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPDW | In VGK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.28% | 3.95% | 2.28% |
| 2 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.97% | 2.27% | 0.97% |
| 3 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.87% | 1.59% | 0.87% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 0.86% | 1.91% | 0.86% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 0.86% | 1.81% | 0.86% |
| 6 | Nestle SA | 0.80% | 1.60% | 0.80% |
| 7 | Siemens AG | 0.70% | 1.49% | 0.70% |
| 8 | Banco Santander SA | 0.60% | 1.28% | 0.60% |
| 9 | Schneider Electric SE | 0.55% | 1.13% | 0.55% |
| 10 | Allianz SE | 0.53% | 1.18% | 0.53% |
| 11 | ABB Ltd | 0.52% | 0.95% | 0.52% |
| 12 | Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 0.51% | 1.04% | 0.51% |
Only in SPDW
1,612 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 0.67%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.63%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.61%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.60%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 0.57%
- Advantest Corp 0.46%
Only in VGK
412 total- Air Liquide SA 0.48%
- L'Oreal SA 0.35%
- Engie SA 0.20%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.18%
- Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA 0.16%
- Amrize Ltd 0.16%
- Sampo Oyj 0.15%
- ORLEN SA 0.14%
- Investor AB 0.14%
- L'Oreal SA 0.11%
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- VGK vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 40.2%
- VGK vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 37.5%
- VGK vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 36.6%
- VGK vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 35.7%
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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