ETF comparison
VTI vs VXUS
US Total Market vs International Total.
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTI and VXUS would leave roughly 0.1% 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 2 bps cheaper than VXUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VXUS.
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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTI | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waste Connections Inc | 0.06% | 0.10% | 0.06% |
| 2 | Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc | 0.04% | 0.07% | 0.04% |
| 3 | RB Global Inc | 0.03% | 0.05% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Energy Fuels Inc/Canada | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| 5 | Sempra | 0.08% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in VTI
3,499 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 VXUS
8,731 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Roche Holding AG 0.70%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Novartis AG 0.66%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
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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.