ETF comparison
VIGI vs VYMI
Both Dividend.
Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
62 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIGI and VYMI would leave roughly 14.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.070% vs 0.070%).
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Top shared holdings
62 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIGI | In VYMI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roche Holding AG | 3.34% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Novartis AG | 3.55% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 3 | Nestle SA | 3.86% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 4 | Royal Bank of Canada | 4.27% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 5 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 3.84% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 6 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 3.25% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 7 | Iberdrola SA | 2.62% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 8 | Novo Nordisk A/S | 2.44% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 9 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc | 2.45% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 10 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 1.87% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 11 | Tokio Marine Holdings Inc | 1.58% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 12 | National Bank of Canada | 1.06% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in VIGI
284 total- Schneider Electric SE 3.10%
- SAP SE 3.08%
- Hitachi Ltd 2.62%
- Mitsubishi Corp 2.32%
- Sony Group Corp 2.20%
- AIA Group Ltd 2.06%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 1.85%
- Brookfield Corp 1.78%
- BAE Systems PLC 1.50%
- RELX PLC 1.18%
Only in VYMI
1,518 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.71%
- Shell PLC 1.41%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.14%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.10%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.05%
- Banco Santander SA 0.97%
- Allianz SE 0.94%
- TotalEnergies SE 0.92%
- UBS Group AG 0.76%
- BP PLC 0.68%
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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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