ETF comparison
VSGX vs VWO
International Total vs International Emerging.
Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3,504 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VSGX and VWO would leave roughly 27.9% 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
VWO 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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
3,504 shared in total| # | Holding | In VSGX | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.46% | 15.56% | 5.46% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.84% | 2.41% | 0.84% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 0.61% | 1.36% | 0.61% |
| 4 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.45% | 0.82% | 0.45% |
| 5 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.34% | 0.81% | 0.34% |
| 6 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.29% | 0.90% | 0.29% |
| 7 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.27% | 0.78% | 0.27% |
| 8 | ICICI Bank Ltd | 0.21% | 0.69% | 0.21% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.20% | 0.66% | 0.20% |
| 10 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.20% | 0.59% | 0.20% |
| 11 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 0.19% | 0.49% | 0.19% |
| 12 | Xiaomi Corp | 0.19% | 0.55% | 0.19% |
Only in VSGX
3,059 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 3.00%
- SK hynix Inc 2.55%
- ASML Holding NV 1.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.90%
- Novartis AG 0.87%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.84%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.81%
- Nestle SA 0.79%
- Siemens AG 0.70%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.63%
Only in VWO
1,476 total- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- Vale SA 0.46%
- Saudi Arabian Oil Co 0.36%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.33%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.31%
- Grupo Mexico SAB de CV 0.29%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.29%
- Baidu Inc 0.26%
- Larsen & Toubro Ltd 0.24%
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- 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%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 26.8%
- VWO vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- VWO vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- VWO vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 24.3%
- VWO vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 24.1%
- VWO vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 23.2%
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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