ETF comparison
VEA vs VPL
Both International Developed.
Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,320 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEA and VPL would leave roughly 36.2% 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 4 bps cheaper than VPL. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VPL.
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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
2,320 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEA | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.55% | 6.61% | 1.55% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 1.39% | 5.18% | 1.39% |
| 3 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.67% | 2.00% | 0.67% |
| 4 | Tokyo Electron Ltd | 0.66% | 1.21% | 0.66% |
| 5 | BHP Group Ltd | 0.65% | 1.77% | 0.65% |
| 6 | Kioxia Holdings Corp | 0.60% | 0.77% | 0.60% |
| 7 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.59% | 1.72% | 0.59% |
| 8 | Toyota Motor Corp | 0.55% | 1.66% | 0.55% |
| 9 | Advantest Corp | 0.46% | 1.18% | 0.46% |
| 10 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc | 0.44% | 1.28% | 0.44% |
| 11 | SoftBank Group Corp | 0.43% | 0.96% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd | 0.39% | 0.65% | 0.39% |
Only in VEA
1,542 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Siemens AG 0.73%
- Shell PLC 0.67%
Only in VPL
17 total- Storage King Group 0.00%
- Giftee Group Inc 0.00%
- Macmahon Holdings Ltd 0.00%
- Sunrise Energy Metals Ltd 0.00%
- Minerals 260 Ltd 0.00%
- PYC Therapeutics Ltd 0.00%
- Lindian Resources Ltd 0.00%
- Cuscal Ltd 0.00%
- EQ Resources Ltd 0.00%
- Elsight Ltd 0.00%
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- VEA vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
- VEA vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 26.7%
- VEA vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 23.0%
- VEA vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 19.3%
More comparisons with VPL
- VPL vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 35.8%
- VPL vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 35.5%
- VPL vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 35.1%
- VPL vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 34.9%
- VPL vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 33.2%
- VPL vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 32.7%
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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