ETF comparison
CWI vs VSGX
Both International Total.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
809 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and VSGX would leave roughly 55.5% 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
VSGX is 20 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for CWI.
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 CWI vs VSGX.
Top shared holdings
809 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
| 2 | ASML Holding NV | 2.12% | 1.95% | 1.95% |
| 3 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.91% | 0.82% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 0.79% | 0.84% | 0.79% |
| 6 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.76% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 7 | Nestle SA | 0.72% | 0.75% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Siemens AG | 0.69% | 0.73% | 0.69% |
| 9 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.61% | 0.74% | 0.61% |
| 10 | Banco Santander SA | 0.60% | 0.65% | 0.60% |
| 11 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.56% | 0.57% | 0.56% |
| 12 | Allianz SE | 0.55% | 0.59% | 0.55% |
Only in CWI
323 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.95%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.89%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.66%
- ABB Ltd 0.61%
- Shell PLC 0.60%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.57%
- Iberdrola SA 0.53%
- Schneider Electric SE 0.52%
Only in VSGX
5,791 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.43%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.59%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.28%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.24%
- L'Oreal SA 0.18%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.14%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.12%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.12%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.12%
- Infosys Ltd 0.12%
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More comparisons with VSGX
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- VSGX vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 48.9%
- VSGX vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 34.2%
- VSGX vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 28.0%
- VSGX vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 27.6%
- VSGX vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 20.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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