ETF comparison
VT vs VTI
Global Stock (incl. US) vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,492 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VT and VTI would leave roughly 60.4% 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
VTI is 3 bps cheaper than VT. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VT.
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 VT vs VTI.
Top shared holdings
1,492 shared in total| # | Holding | In VT | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 4.06% | 6.36% | 4.06% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 3.87% | 5.87% | 3.87% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 2.99% | 3.83% | 2.99% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 2.28% | 3.19% | 2.28% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 1.83% | 2.90% | 1.83% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 1.57% | 2.47% | 1.57% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.44% | 2.28% | 1.44% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.06% | 1.71% | 1.06% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.81% | 1.12% | 0.81% |
| 10 | Micron Technology Inc | 0.80% | 1.80% | 0.80% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.79% | 1.40% | 0.79% |
| 12 | Tesla Inc | 0.79% | 1.64% | 0.79% |
Only in VT
8,558 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.70%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 0.56%
- ASML Holding NV 0.55%
- SK hynix Inc 0.55%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.33%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.32%
- Novartis AG 0.25%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.25%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.24%
Only in VTI
2,012 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.78%
- Applied Optoelectronics Inc 0.02%
- Argan Inc 0.01%
- Chart Industries Inc 0.01%
- TopBuild Corp 0.01%
- Powell Industries Inc 0.01%
- Apogee Therapeutics Inc 0.01%
- MYR Group Inc 0.01%
- Kodiak Gas Services Inc 0.01%
- Forgent Power Solutions Inc 0.01%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.