ETF comparison
FEZ vs VGK
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FEZ and VGK would leave roughly 30.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGK is 23 bps cheaper than FEZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for FEZ.
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 FEZ vs VGK.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In FEZ | In VGK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 9.76% | 3.61% | 3.61% |
| 2 | Siemens AG | 3.87% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 3 | Banco Santander SA | 3.49% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 4 | Allianz SE | 3.42% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 5 | SAP SE | 3.76% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 6 | Schneider Electric SE | 3.31% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 7 | TotalEnergies SE | 4.43% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| 8 | Siemens Energy AG | 2.75% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 9 | Iberdrola SA | 3.07% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 10 | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE | 2.90% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 11 | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA | 2.61% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 12 | Airbus SE | 2.37% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
Only in FEZ
1 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.01%
Only in VGK
1,175 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 2.03%
- Roche Holding AG 1.84%
- AstraZeneca PLC 1.83%
- Novartis AG 1.83%
- Nestle SA 1.68%
- ABB Ltd 1.01%
- UBS Group AG 0.89%
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 0.88%
- Novo Nordisk A/S 0.87%
- Unilever PLC 0.81%
Open FEZ or VGK at a brokerage
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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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