ETF comparison
SCHF vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
Schwab International Equity ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,471 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHF and VXUS would leave roughly 65.1% 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
SCHF 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 SCHF vs VXUS.
Top shared holdings
1,471 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHF | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 2.88% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
| 2 | ASML Holding NV | 2.14% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc | 2.23% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 4 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 1.17% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 1.01% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.94% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.94% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.83% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 9 | Shell PLC | 0.84% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 10 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.80% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.82% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | Siemens AG | 0.80% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
Only in SCHF
3 total- Fresenius SE & Co KGaA 0.07%
- Hanwha Machinery & Service Holdings Co Ltd 0.00%
- Hanwha Machinery & Service Holdings Co Ltd 0.00%
Only in VXUS
7,265 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- MediaTek Inc 0.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.24%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.22%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.21%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.21%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.20%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.18%
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- SCHF vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 48.3%
- SCHF vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 47.7%
- SCHF vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 47.5%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 64.8%
- VXUS vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 63.8%
- VXUS vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 62.8%
- VXUS vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 56.3%
- VXUS vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 56.3%
- VXUS vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 54.9%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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