ETF comparison
SPDW vs VSS
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
824 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPDW and VSS would leave roughly 5.4% 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.
Side by side
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPDW is 3 bps cheaper than VSS. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VSS.
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 VSS.
Top shared holdings
824 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPDW | In VSS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aritzia Inc | 0.05% | 0.27% | 0.05% |
| 2 | Nexans SA | 0.05% | 0.17% | 0.05% |
| 3 | SBM Offshore NV | 0.04% | 0.13% | 0.04% |
| 4 | voestalpine AG | 0.04% | 0.18% | 0.04% |
| 5 | FLSmidth & Co A/S | 0.04% | 0.10% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Exchange Income Corp | 0.04% | 0.07% | 0.04% |
| 7 | Jusung Engineering Co Ltd | 0.04% | 0.06% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Unicaja Banco SA | 0.04% | 0.12% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Aberdeen Group PLC | 0.03% | 0.17% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Aedifica SA | 0.03% | 0.21% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Bilfinger SE | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Nordic Semiconductor ASA | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.03% |
Only in SPDW
1,604 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- 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%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
Only in VSS
3,994 total- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.24%
- Kinsus Interconnect Technology Corp 0.18%
- Macronix International Co Ltd 0.16%
- Bank of Georgia Group PLC 0.15%
- Compeq Manufacturing Co Ltd 0.15%
- Chartwell Retirement Residences 0.15%
- CD Projekt SA 0.13%
- WinWay Technology Co Ltd 0.12%
- Zabka Group SA 0.12%
- Benefit Systems SA 0.12%
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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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