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
3,024 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEA and VSGX would leave roughly 65.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
3,024 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEA | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.88% | 2.21% | 1.88% |
| 2 | ASML Holding NV | 1.77% | 1.80% | 1.77% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc | 1.05% | 1.26% | 1.05% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 1.01% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 5 | AstraZeneca PLC | 1.01% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 6 | Nestle SA | 0.87% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 7 | Toyota Motor Corp | 0.76% | 0.81% | 0.76% |
| 8 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.78% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 9 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.67% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.64% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 11 | Siemens AG | 0.61% | 0.67% | 0.61% |
| 12 | SAP SE | 0.60% | 0.65% | 0.60% |
Only in VEA
857 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- Roche Holding AG 0.96%
- Shell PLC 0.90%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.61%
- TotalEnergies SE 0.57%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.54%
- Iberdrola SA 0.52%
- Schneider Electric SE 0.51%
- LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE 0.48%
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 0.44%
Only in VSGX
3,539 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.76%
- Roche Holding AG 1.05%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.02%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.35%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.29%
- MediaTek Inc 0.28%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.28%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.27%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.25%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.25%
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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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