ETF comparison
VT vs VWO
Global Stock (incl. US) vs International Emerging.
Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
4,580 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VT and VWO would leave roughly 9.8% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.060% vs 0.060%).
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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
4,580 shared in total| # | Holding | In VT | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 1.56% | 15.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.33% | 3.31% | 0.33% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.24% | 2.41% | 0.24% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 0.14% | 1.36% | 0.14% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.09% | 0.90% | 0.09% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.08% | 0.82% | 0.08% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.08% | 0.81% | 0.08% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.08% | 0.78% | 0.08% |
| 9 | ICICI Bank Ltd | 0.07% | 0.69% | 0.07% |
| 10 | Reliance Industries Ltd | 0.07% | 0.80% | 0.07% |
| 11 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.07% | 0.66% | 0.07% |
| 12 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.06% | 0.59% | 0.06% |
Only in VT
5,470 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%
Only in VWO
400 total- Bangkok Bank PCL 0.02%
- Cia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo SABESP 0.02%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 0.02%
- True Corp PCL 0.02%
- Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 0.01%
- Cia Paranaense de Energia - Copel 0.01%
- Banco Santander Brasil SA 0.01%
- Embraer SA 0.01%
- Tisco Financial Group PCL 0.01%
- Cia Energetica de Minas Gerais 0.01%
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- VT vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 9.2%
- VT vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 9.0%
- VT vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 8.8%
- VT vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 8.6%
- VT vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 8.5%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs KWEB · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF 8.9%
- VWO vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 7.8%
- VWO vs EWZ · iShares MSCI Brazil ETF 3.6%
- VWO vs KSA · iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF 3.0%
- VWO vs ILF · iShares Latin America 40 ETF 2.7%
- VWO vs EWW · iShares MSCI Mexico ETF 2.1%
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/.
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.