ETF comparison
VPL vs VSS
Both International Developed.
Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,456 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VPL and VSS would leave roughly 7.3% 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
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · International Developed
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VSS is 1 bps cheaper than VPL. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VPL.
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 VPL vs VSS.
Top shared holdings
1,456 shared in total| # | Holding | In VPL | In VSS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perseus Mining Ltd | 0.04% | 0.13% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Capricorn Metals Ltd | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 3 | Greatland Resources Ltd | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Fuji Corp/Aichi | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Vault Minerals Ltd | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group Inc | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Nishi-Nippon Financial Holdings Inc | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Regis Resources Ltd | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| 9 | Westgold Resources Ltd | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Ventia Services Group Pty Ltd | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Shiga Bank Ltd/The | 0.02% | 0.08% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Megaport Ltd | 0.02% | 0.09% | 0.02% |
Only in VPL
881 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
- SK hynix Inc 5.18%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 2.00%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.77%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.72%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.66%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 1.28%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.21%
- Hitachi Ltd 1.19%
- Advantest Corp 1.18%
Only in VSS
3,362 total- Hudbay Minerals Inc 0.27%
- Aritzia Inc 0.27%
- Finning International Inc 0.24%
- Storebrand ASA 0.24%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.24%
- Games Workshop Group PLC 0.24%
- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.24%
- Gaztransport Et Technigaz SA 0.23%
- South Bow Corp 0.22%
- Subsea 7 SA 0.21%
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- VPL vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 4.8%
- VPL vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 4.3%
- VPL vs EWH · iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF 3.3%
- VPL vs EWS · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF 2.8%
More comparisons with VSS
- VSS vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 7.2%
- VSS vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 7.1%
- VSS vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 7.0%
- VSS vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 6.8%
- VSS vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 6.6%
- VSS vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 6.2%
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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