ETF comparison
VT vs VXUS
Global Stock (incl. US) vs International Total.
Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
8,443 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VT and VXUS would leave roughly 37.0% 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 1 bps cheaper than VT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
8,443 shared in total| # | Holding | In VT | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 1.56% | 4.10% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 0.70% | 1.83% | 0.70% |
| 3 | ASML Holding NV | 0.55% | 1.45% | 0.55% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc | 0.55% | 1.43% | 0.55% |
| 5 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.33% | 0.87% | 0.33% |
| 6 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.32% | 0.83% | 0.32% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.25% | 0.66% | 0.25% |
| 8 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.25% | 0.67% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.24% | 0.63% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Roche Holding AG | 0.24% | 0.70% | 0.24% |
| 11 | Shell PLC | 0.22% | 0.58% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Nestle SA | 0.22% | 0.59% | 0.22% |
Only in VT
1,607 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 VXUS
293 total- Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF 0.12%
- Qube Holdings Ltd 0.01%
- N/A 0.00%
- Embraer SA 0.00%
- Cemex SAB de CV 0.00%
- Cia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo SABESP 0.00%
- N/A 0.00%
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico SAB de CV 0.00%
- Cia Energetica de Minas Gerais 0.00%
- Korea Electric Power Corp 0.00%
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- VT vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 31.9%
- VT vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 30.5%
- VT vs JGLO · Jpmorgan Global Select Equity ETF 28.7%
- VT vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 27.5%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 35.5%
- VXUS vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 34.6%
- VXUS vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 32.2%
- VXUS vs BBEU · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF 30.3%
- VXUS vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 29.9%
- VXUS vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 28.6%
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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