ETF comparison
VEA vs VSGX
International Developed vs International Total.
Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
3,031 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEA and VSGX 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
VEA is 7 bps cheaper than VSGX. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VSGX.
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 VSGX.
Top shared holdings
3,031 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEA | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.36% | 1.90% | 1.90% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.55% | 3.00% | 1.55% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc | 1.39% | 2.55% | 1.39% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 0.89% | 0.90% | 0.89% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 0.90% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 6 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.87% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 7 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.82% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 9 | Siemens AG | 0.73% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.67% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 11 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.59% | 0.60% | 0.59% |
| 12 | Banco Santander SA | 0.62% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
Only in VEA
831 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Shell PLC 0.67%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.65%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.63%
- Schneider Electric SE 0.55%
- ABB Ltd 0.52%
- Iberdrola SA 0.52%
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 0.50%
- TotalEnergies SE 0.46%
Only in VSGX
3,532 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.46%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.84%
- MediaTek Inc 0.61%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.45%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.34%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.29%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.27%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.21%
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.20%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.20%
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- VEA vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 58.4%
- VEA vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 52.5%
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More comparisons with VSGX
- VSGX vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 55.9%
- VSGX vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 53.2%
- VSGX vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 48.6%
- VSGX vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 35.2%
- VSGX vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 27.9%
- VSGX vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
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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