ETF comparison
SPDW vs VPL
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,197 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPDW and VPL would leave roughly 35.8% 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
SPDW is 4 bps cheaper than VPL. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VPL.
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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
1,197 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPDW | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 2.79% | 5.18% | 2.79% |
| 2 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.72% | 2.00% | 0.72% |
| 3 | Tokyo Electron Ltd | 0.67% | 1.21% | 0.67% |
| 4 | BHP Group Ltd | 0.63% | 1.77% | 0.63% |
| 5 | Toyota Motor Corp | 0.61% | 1.66% | 0.61% |
| 6 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.57% | 1.72% | 0.57% |
| 7 | Advantest Corp | 0.46% | 1.18% | 0.46% |
| 8 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc | 0.45% | 1.28% | 0.45% |
| 9 | SoftBank Group Corp | 0.44% | 0.96% | 0.44% |
| 10 | Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd | 0.42% | 0.65% | 0.42% |
| 11 | Sony Group Corp | 0.38% | 1.14% | 0.38% |
| 12 | Hitachi Ltd | 0.38% | 1.19% | 0.38% |
Only in SPDW
1,231 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- ASML Holding NV 2.28%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Roche Holding AG 0.86%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Novartis AG 0.86%
- Nestle SA 0.80%
- Siemens AG 0.70%
- Shell PLC 0.68%
Only in VPL
1,140 total- Lenovo Group Ltd 0.19%
- POSCO Holdings Inc 0.13%
- WH Group Ltd 0.07%
- SITC International Holdings Co Ltd 0.05%
- Light & Wonder Inc 0.05%
- Korea Electric Power Corp 0.05%
- Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd 0.04%
- MMG Ltd 0.04%
- AAC Technologies Holdings Inc 0.03%
- Greatland Resources Ltd 0.03%
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- SPDW vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- SPDW vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 23.6%
- SPDW vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 20.5%
- SPDW vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 17.4%
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- VPL vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 35.5%
- VPL vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 35.1%
- VPL vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 34.9%
- VPL vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 33.2%
- VPL vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 32.7%
- VPL vs EFV · iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF 31.4%
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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