ETF comparison
SPDW vs VT
International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).
State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,241 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPDW and VT would leave roughly 25.6% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPDW is 3 bps cheaper than VT. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VT.
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 VT.
Top shared holdings
2,241 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPDW | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.28% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.79% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.97% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 0.86% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 5 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.86% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | Roche Holding AG | 0.86% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 7 | Shell PLC | 0.68% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.80% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 9 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.87% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.72% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 11 | Siemens AG | 0.70% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | BHP Group Ltd | 0.63% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in SPDW
187 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.15%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.11%
- Sea Ltd 0.10%
- Ryanair Holdings PLC 0.06%
- Ascendis Pharma A/S 0.04%
- Rogers Communications Inc 0.04%
- Global Ship Lease Inc 0.03%
- Sartorius AG 0.03%
- CCL Industries Inc 0.03%
Only in VT
7,809 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
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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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