ETF comparison
ESGE vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
277 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and VT would leave roughly 7.0% 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
VT is 19 bps cheaper than ESGE. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/yr more in fees for ESGE.
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 ESGE vs VT.
Top shared holdings
277 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGE | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 15.08% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 7.25% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.55% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.56% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.71% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.41% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 1.19% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.94% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.09% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.60% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.80% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.55% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in ESGE
10 total- PTT Public Company Limited 0.28%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.19%
- ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.12%
- MAHINDRA AND MAHINDRA LIMITED 0.11%
- Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited 0.11%
- SBERBANK ROSSII PAO 0.00%
- NEFTYANAYA KOMPANIYA ROSNEFT' PAO 0.00%
- PHOSAGRO PUBLIC JOINT STOCK COMPANY 0.00%
- T-Tekhnologii MKPAO 0.00%
- POLYUS PAO 0.00%
Only in VT
9,773 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%
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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
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/methodology/.
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