ETF comparison
VEA vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3,844 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEA and VXUS would leave roughly 71.1% 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 2 bps cheaper than VXUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VXUS.
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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
3,844 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEA | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.55% | 1.83% | 1.55% |
| 2 | ASML Holding NV | 2.36% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc | 1.39% | 1.43% | 1.39% |
| 4 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 1.00% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.89% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.90% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.82% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 9 | Shell PLC | 0.67% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 10 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.87% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.67% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | Siemens AG | 0.73% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
Only in VEA
18 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- L'Oreal SA 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%
- Abacus Storage King 0.00%
- ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA 0.00%
- Hyundai Home Shopping Network Corp 0.00%
Only in VXUS
4,892 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- MediaTek Inc 0.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.24%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.22%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.21%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.21%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.20%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.18%
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- VEA vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 65.7%
- VEA vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 65.5%
- VEA vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 64.8%
- VEA vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 64.7%
- VEA vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 64.0%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 65.2%
- VXUS vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 64.8%
- VXUS vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 63.8%
- VXUS vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 62.8%
- VXUS vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 56.3%
- VXUS vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 56.3%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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