ETF comparison
VEA vs VEU
International Developed vs International Total.
Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,485 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEA and VEU would leave roughly 71.3% 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
VEA is 1 bps cheaper than VEU. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VEU.
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 VEA vs VEU.
Top shared holdings
1,485 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEA | In VEU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.36% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.55% | 1.99% | 1.55% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc | 1.39% | 1.56% | 1.39% |
| 4 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 1.00% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.89% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.90% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.82% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 9 | Shell PLC | 0.67% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 10 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.87% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.67% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 12 | Siemens AG | 0.73% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
Only in VEA
2,377 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Aritzia Inc 0.03%
- Hudbay Minerals Inc 0.03%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.03%
- Games Workshop Group PLC 0.03%
- Finning International Inc 0.03%
- Capital Power Corp 0.03%
- NKT A/S 0.02%
- Gaztransport Et Technigaz SA 0.02%
- IG Group Holdings PLC 0.02%
Only in VEU
2,361 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.95%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.69%
- MediaTek Inc 0.39%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.25%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.23%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.23%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.23%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.22%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.20%
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- VEA vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 69.2%
- VEA vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 65.7%
- VEA vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 65.5%
- VEA vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 64.8%
More comparisons with VEU
- VEU vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 69.6%
- VEU vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 57.8%
- VEU vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 52.7%
- VEU vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 34.4%
- VEU vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 30.5%
- VEU vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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