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ESGE vs VXUS

International Emerging vs International Total.

iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
18.3 %

272 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGE and VXUS would leave roughly 18.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

ESGE unmatched 81.2% Shared 18.3% VXUS unmatched 79.1%

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.

In ESGE only
15 positions
Shared
272 positions
In VXUS only
8,464 positions

Side by side

ESGE

iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF

iShares · International Emerging

77 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.25%
Net assets
$6.25B
TTM yield
2.31%
Top-10 conc.
37.9%
VXUS

Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Total

93 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.050%
Net assets
$630.01B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
2.40%
Top-10 conc.
13.2%

Sub-score comparison

75
Cost
95
76
Tax efficiency
78
91
Liquidity
100
60
Concentration
95
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Tracking quality
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ESGE sub-score VXUS

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VXUS is 20 bps cheaper than ESGE. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/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 VXUS.

Top shared holdings

272 shared in total
# Holding In ESGE In VXUS Overlap
1 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 15.08% 4.10% 4.10%
2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.25% 1.83% 1.83%
3 SK hynix Inc. 5.55% 1.43% 1.43%
4 Tencent Holdings Limited 2.56% 0.87% 0.87%
5 Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.71% 0.63% 0.63%
6 MediaTek Inc. 1.41% 0.36% 0.36%
7 CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 1.19% 0.24% 0.24%
8 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.94% 0.23% 0.23%
9 DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.09% 0.22% 0.22%
10 HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.60% 0.21% 0.21%
11 RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.44% 0.21% 0.21%
12 HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.80% 0.20% 0.20%

Only in ESGE

15 total
  • CREDICORP LTD. 0.33%
  • PTT Public Company Limited 0.28%
  • Nu Holdings Ltd. 0.24%
  • KASIKORNBANK PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.21%
  • Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 0.19%
  • XP Inc. 0.18%
  • The Siam Cement Public Company Limited 0.12%
  • SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.12%
  • ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 0.12%
  • MAHINDRA AND MAHINDRA LIMITED 0.11%

Only in VXUS

8,464 total
  • ASML Holding NV 1.45%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
  • Roche Holding AG 0.70%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
  • Novartis AG 0.66%
  • Nestle SA 0.59%
  • Shell PLC 0.58%
  • AstraZeneca PLC 0.58%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.55%
  • Siemens AG 0.55%

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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/.

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