ETF comparison
VEU vs VSGX
Both International Total.
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
2,692 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEU and VSGX would leave roughly 68.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VEU is 6 bps cheaper than VSGX. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for VSGX.
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 VEU vs VSGX.
Top shared holdings
2,692 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEU | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.28% | 4.76% | 4.28% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.81% | 2.21% | 1.81% |
| 3 | ASML Holding NV | 1.43% | 1.80% | 1.43% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc | 1.23% | 1.26% | 1.23% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.75% | 1.02% | 0.75% |
| 6 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.72% | 0.99% | 0.72% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.72% | 1.01% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.66% | 0.87% | 0.66% |
| 9 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.64% | 0.74% | 0.64% |
| 10 | Siemens AG | 0.56% | 0.67% | 0.56% |
| 11 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.54% | 0.65% | 0.54% |
| 12 | Toyota Motor Corp | 0.52% | 0.81% | 0.52% |
Only in VEU
1,158 total- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.96%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.80%
- Roche Holding AG 0.73%
- Shell PLC 0.66%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.49%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.46%
- Schneider Electric SE 0.44%
- TotalEnergies SE 0.43%
- Siemens Energy AG 0.40%
- ABB Ltd 0.40%
Only in VSGX
3,871 total- Roche Holding AG 1.05%
- Ashtead Group PLC 0.09%
- Toyota Industries Corp 0.07%
- Hudbay Minerals Inc 0.03%
- OceanaGold Corp 0.03%
- Eldorado Gold Corp 0.03%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.03%
- L'Oreal SA 0.03%
- Aritzia Inc 0.03%
- Sam Chun Dang Pharm Co Ltd 0.03%
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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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