ETF comparison
VPL vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,337 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VPL and VXUS would leave roughly 27.2% 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 2 bps cheaper than VPL. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
2,337 shared in total| # | Holding | In VPL | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 6.61% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 5.18% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 3 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 2.00% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 1.72% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 5 | Toyota Motor Corp | 1.66% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 6 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc | 1.28% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 7 | Tokyo Electron Ltd | 1.21% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 8 | Hitachi Ltd | 1.19% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 9 | Advantest Corp | 1.18% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 10 | Sony Group Corp | 1.14% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 11 | Mizuho Financial Group Inc | 1.01% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 12 | SoftBank Group Corp | 0.96% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
Only in VPL
0 totalEvery VPL position is also held by VXUS.
Only in VXUS
6,399 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- Nestle SA 0.59%
- Shell PLC 0.58%
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- VPL vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 18.4%
- VPL vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 18.0%
- VPL vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 15.2%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 26.8%
- VXUS vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- VXUS vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 24.0%
- VXUS vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 23.1%
- VXUS vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 22.7%
- VXUS vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 22.4%
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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