ETF comparison
VTI vs VWO
US Total Market vs International Emerging.
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTI and VWO would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VTI is 3 bps cheaper than VWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VWO.
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 VTI vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VTI
3,504 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
Only in VWO
4,980 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
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- VTI vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 98.1%
- VTI vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 97.9%
- VTI vs SPTM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF 94.9%
- VTI vs IWB · iShares Russell 1000 ETF 94.8%
- VTI vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 93.7%
More comparisons with VWO
- VWO vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 83.7%
- VWO vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 70.2%
- VWO vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 69.6%
- VWO vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 68.7%
- VWO vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 67.0%
- VWO vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 61.2%
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/.
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.