ETF comparison
VEU vs VT
International Total vs Global Stock (incl. US).
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3,816 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VEU and VT would leave roughly 34.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VEU is 2 bps cheaper than VT. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VT.
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 VT.
Top shared holdings
3,816 shared in total| # | Holding | In VEU | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.28% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.81% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 3 | ASML Holding NV | 1.43% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc | 1.23% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 5 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.96% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 6 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.80% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.75% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 8 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.72% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Novartis AG | 0.72% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 10 | Nestle SA | 0.66% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | Shell PLC | 0.66% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 12 | Roche Holding AG | 0.73% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
Only in VEU
34 total- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.02%
- Cemex SAB de CV 0.02%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 0.01%
- Korea Electric Power Corp 0.01%
- Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 0.01%
- Bangkok Bank PCL 0.01%
- Cia Energetica de Minas Gerais 0.00%
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd 0.00%
- True Corp PCL 0.00%
- Telefonica Brasil SA 0.00%
Only in VT
6,201 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.19%
- Apple Inc 3.50%
- Microsoft Corp 2.71%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 2.03%
- Broadcom Inc 1.73%
- Alphabet Inc 1.60%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.20%
- Tesla Inc 0.97%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.71%
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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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