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SPDW vs VWO

International Developed vs International Emerging.

State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

10 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPDW and VWO would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPDW unmatched 98.6% Shared 0.0% VWO unmatched 95.4%

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.

In SPDW only
2,418 positions
Shared
10 positions
In VWO only
4,970 positions

Side by side

SPDW

State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF

State Street · International Developed

93 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$41.14B
TTM yield
3.09%
Top-10 conc.
14.0%
VWO

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Emerging

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$164.66B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
2.14%
Top-10 conc.
27.4%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
94
77
Tax efficiency
76
100
Liquidity
100
94
Concentration
75
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Tracking quality
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SPDW sub-score VWO

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SPDW is 3 bps cheaper than VWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VWO.

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 VWO.

Top shared holdings

10 shared in total
# Holding In SPDW In VWO Overlap
1 Fosun International Ltd 0.00% 0.01% 0.00%
2 Towngas Smart Energy Co Ltd 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
3 PAX Global Technology Ltd 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
4 China Tobacco International HK Co Ltd 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
5 China Ruyi Holdings Ltd 0.00% 0.02% 0.00%
6 China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings Co Ltd 0.00% 0.01% 0.00%
7 BOE Varitronix Ltd 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
8 Zhongyu Energy Holdings Ltd 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
9 Gemdale Properties & Investment Corp Ltd 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
10 Yuexiu Real Estate Investment Trust 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

Only in SPDW

2,418 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 VWO

4,970 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
  • Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
  • MediaTek Inc 1.36%
  • China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
  • Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
  • Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
  • Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
  • HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
  • ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%

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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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