ETF comparison
VEU vs VWO
International Total vs International Emerging.
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,339 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEU and VWO would leave roughly 25.6% 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 2 bps cheaper than VWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 VEU vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
2,339 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEU | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.43% | 15.56% | 4.43% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.95% | 3.31% | 0.95% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.69% | 2.41% | 0.69% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 0.39% | 1.36% | 0.39% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.25% | 0.90% | 0.25% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.23% | 0.82% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.23% | 0.81% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Reliance Industries Ltd | 0.23% | 0.80% | 0.23% |
| 9 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.22% | 0.78% | 0.22% |
| 10 | ICICI Bank Ltd | 0.20% | 0.69% | 0.20% |
| 11 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.19% | 0.66% | 0.19% |
| 12 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.17% | 0.59% | 0.17% |
Only in VEU
1,507 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.99%
- ASML Holding NV 1.58%
- SK hynix Inc 1.56%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.91%
- Roche Holding AG 0.76%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.73%
- Novartis AG 0.72%
- Nestle SA 0.64%
- Shell PLC 0.64%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.63%
Only in VWO
2,641 total- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.07%
- Kinsus Interconnect Technology Corp 0.05%
- Macronix International Co Ltd 0.05%
- Compeq Manufacturing Co Ltd 0.05%
- WinWay Technology Co Ltd 0.04%
- Fibra MTY SAPI de CV 0.04%
- LandMark Optoelectronics Corp 0.03%
- Radico Khaitan Ltd 0.03%
- ADATA Technology Co Ltd 0.03%
- L&K Engineering Co Ltd 0.03%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VEU
- VEU vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 24.7%
- VEU vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 88.9%
- VEU vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 88.7%
- VEU vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 88.5%
- VEU vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 71.6%
- VEU vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 71.3%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 24.3%
- VWO vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 24.1%
- VWO vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 23.2%
- VWO vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 20.3%
- VWO vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 20.2%
- VWO vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 15.4%
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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