ETF comparison
SPDW vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,223 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPDW and VXUS would leave roughly 64.8% 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 2 bps cheaper than VXUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VXUS.
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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
2,223 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPDW | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.28% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.79% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.97% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 0.86% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 5 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.86% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 6 | Novartis AG | 0.86% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 7 | Nestle SA | 0.80% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 8 | Shell PLC | 0.68% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 9 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.87% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.72% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 11 | Siemens AG | 0.70% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.57% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
Only in SPDW
205 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.21%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.15%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.11%
- Sea Ltd 0.10%
- AerCap Holdings NV 0.08%
- Ryanair Holdings PLC 0.06%
- POSCO Holdings Inc 0.05%
- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd 0.05%
- IREN Ltd 0.05%
Only in VXUS
6,513 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- MediaTek Inc 0.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.24%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.22%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.21%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.21%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.20%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.18%
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- SPDW vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 64.8%
- SPDW vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 63.5%
- SPDW vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 58.6%
- SPDW vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 51.8%
- SPDW vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 51.7%
- SPDW vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 49.3%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 63.8%
- VXUS vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 62.8%
- VXUS vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 56.3%
- VXUS vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 56.3%
- VXUS vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 54.9%
- VXUS vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 52.8%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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