ETF comparison
VEA vs VWO
International Developed vs International Emerging.
Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEA and VWO would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VEA is 3 bps cheaper than VWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VWO.
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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VEA
3,862 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- 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%
Only in VWO
4,980 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VEA
- VEA vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 85.9%
- VEA vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 85.0%
- VEA vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 83.2%
- VEA vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 75.3%
- VEA vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 71.7%
- VEA vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 71.3%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 0.0%
- VWO vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VWO vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 0.0%
- VWO vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 83.7%
- VWO vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 70.2%
- VWO vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 69.6%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.