ETF comparison
VEU vs VSGX
Both International Total.
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
2,720 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEU and VSGX would leave roughly 71.6% 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
VEU is 6 bps cheaper than VSGX. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 VEU vs VSGX.
Top shared holdings
2,720 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEU | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.43% | 5.46% | 4.43% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.99% | 3.00% | 1.99% |
| 3 | ASML Holding NV | 1.58% | 1.90% | 1.58% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc | 1.56% | 2.55% | 1.56% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.76% | 0.90% | 0.76% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.73% | 0.81% | 0.73% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.72% | 0.87% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.69% | 0.84% | 0.69% |
| 9 | Nestle SA | 0.64% | 0.79% | 0.64% |
| 10 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.63% | 0.84% | 0.63% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.60% | 0.63% | 0.60% |
| 12 | Siemens AG | 0.60% | 0.70% | 0.60% |
Only in VEU
1,126 total- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.95%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.91%
- Shell PLC 0.64%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.53%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.50%
- Schneider Electric SE 0.45%
- TotalEnergies SE 0.42%
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 0.42%
- Iberdrola SA 0.40%
- ABB Ltd 0.38%
Only in VSGX
3,843 total- Telecom Italia SpA/Milano 0.04%
- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.04%
- Aritzia Inc 0.03%
- Hudbay Minerals Inc 0.03%
- Macronix International Co Ltd 0.03%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.03%
- Games Workshop Group PLC 0.03%
- Compeq Manufacturing Co Ltd 0.03%
- NKT A/S 0.03%
- IG Group Holdings PLC 0.02%
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- VEU vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 71.3%
- VEU vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 69.6%
- VEU vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 57.8%
- VEU vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 52.7%
- VEU vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 34.4%
- VEU vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 30.5%
More comparisons with VSGX
- VSGX vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 70.9%
- VSGX vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 70.3%
- VSGX vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 64.8%
- 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%
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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