ETF comparison
VSGX vs VT
International Total vs Global Stock (incl. US).
Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
6,396 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VSGX and VT would leave roughly 27.5% 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
VT is 4 bps cheaper than VSGX. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VSGX.
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 VSGX vs VT.
Top shared holdings
6,396 shared in total| # | Holding | In VSGX | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.46% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 3.00% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | ASML Holding NV | 1.90% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc | 2.55% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 0.87% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.81% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.84% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Roche Holding AG | 0.90% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | Nestle SA | 0.79% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 10 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.84% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.63% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | Siemens AG | 0.70% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in VSGX
167 total- Telecom Italia SpA/Milano 0.04%
- Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 0.01%
- Discovery Silver Corp 0.01%
- Seabridge Gold Inc 0.01%
- Taseko Mines Ltd 0.01%
- FIBRA Macquarie Mexico 0.01%
- JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd 0.01%
- Hesai Group 0.01%
- InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust 0.00%
- PALTAC Corp 0.00%
Only in VT
3,654 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.80%
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More comparisons with VSGX
- VSGX vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 19.8%
- VSGX vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 71.9%
- VSGX vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 71.6%
- VSGX vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 70.9%
- VSGX vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 70.3%
- VSGX vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 64.8%
More comparisons with VT
- VT vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
- VT vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 26.2%
- VT vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 25.6%
- VT vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 25.3%
- VT vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 24.6%
- VT vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 23.1%
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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