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VPL vs VWO

International Developed vs International Emerging.

Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VPL and VWO would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VPL unmatched 99.4% Shared 0.0% VWO unmatched 95.4%

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.

In VPL only
2,337 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VWO only
4,980 positions

Side by side

VPL

Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Developed

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$13.48B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
2.21%
Top-10 conc.
23.8%
VWO

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Emerging

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$164.66B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
2.16%
Top-10 conc.
27.4%

Sub-score comparison

93
Cost
94
79
Tax efficiency
76
100
Liquidity
100
80
Concentration
75
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Tracking quality
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VPL sub-score VWO

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VWO 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 VWO.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in VPL

2,337 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 VWO

4,980 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
  • Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
  • MediaTek Inc 1.36%
  • China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
  • Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
  • Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
  • Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
  • HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
  • ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%

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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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