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VEA vs VT

International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
27.5 %

3,843 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEA and VT would leave roughly 27.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VEA unmatched 69.9% Shared 27.5% VT unmatched 71.6%

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.

In VEA only
19 positions
Shared
3,843 positions
In VT only
6,207 positions

Side by side

VEA

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Developed

94 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$313.54B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
2.47%
Top-10 conc.
13.1%
VT

Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Global Stock (incl. US)

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$101.18B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
1.55%
Top-10 conc.
21.5%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
94
78
Tax efficiency
85
100
Liquidity
100
96
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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VEA sub-score VT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VEA is 3 bps cheaper than VT. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VT.

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 VT.

Top shared holdings

3,843 shared in total
# Holding In VEA In VT Overlap
1 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55% 0.70% 0.70%
2 ASML Holding NV 2.36% 0.55% 0.55%
3 SK hynix Inc 1.39% 0.55% 0.55%
4 HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00% 0.32% 0.32%
5 Novartis AG 0.90% 0.25% 0.25%
6 Royal Bank of Canada 0.90% 0.25% 0.25%
7 Roche Holding AG 0.89% 0.24% 0.24%
8 Shell PLC 0.67% 0.22% 0.22%
9 Nestle SA 0.82% 0.22% 0.22%
10 AstraZeneca PLC 0.87% 0.22% 0.22%
11 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.67% 0.21% 0.21%
12 Siemens AG 0.73% 0.21% 0.21%

Only in VEA

19 total
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
  • Qube Holdings Ltd 0.02%
  • Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 0.01%
  • Discovery Silver Corp 0.01%
  • InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust 0.00%
  • PALTAC Corp 0.00%
  • Cofinimmo SA 0.00%
  • N/A 0.00%
  • Abacus Storage King 0.00%
  • ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA 0.00%

Only in VT

6,207 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
  • Apple Inc 3.87%
  • Microsoft Corp 2.99%
  • Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.83%
  • Broadcom Inc 1.57%
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.44%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%

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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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