ETF comparison
VGK vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,222 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGK and VXUS would leave roughly 35.5% 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
VXUS is 1 bps cheaper than VGK. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VGK.
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 VGK vs VXUS.
Top shared holdings
1,222 shared in total| # | Holding | In VGK | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 3.95% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 2 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 2.27% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 3 | Roche Holding AG | 1.91% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 1.81% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 5 | Nestle SA | 1.60% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 6 | AstraZeneca PLC | 1.59% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 7 | Siemens AG | 1.49% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 8 | Allianz SE | 1.18% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 9 | SAP SE | 1.17% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 10 | Schneider Electric SE | 1.13% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 11 | TotalEnergies SE | 1.05% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 12 | Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 1.04% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
Only in VGK
6 total- L'Oreal SA 0.11%
- N/A 0.01%
- Sodexo SA 0.01%
- LISI SA 0.00%
- Borr Drilling Ltd 0.00%
- Finablr PLC 0.00%
Only in VXUS
7,514 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.55%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 0.48%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.46%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.46%
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- VGK vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 18.8%
- VGK vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 13.8%
- VGK vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 12.8%
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- VXUS vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 34.6%
- VXUS vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 32.2%
- VXUS vs BBEU · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF 30.3%
- VXUS vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 29.9%
- VXUS vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 28.6%
- VXUS vs EFV · iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF 27.8%
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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