VEAvsVIG

Vanguard Developed Markets ETF or Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VEA costs 0.03% a year against 0.04% for VIG, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VEA returned +28.6% and VIG +18.0%.

0.2%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VEA0.2% in stocks the other holds too
VIG1.6% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

VEAVIGYearly cost0.03%0.04%Net assets$316.4B$130.9BPositions3,908341Last 12 months+28.6%+18.0%3 years, a year+19.3%+14.9%5 years, a year+10.1%+10.4%Largest holdingSamsung 3.5%AVGO 4.6%Main sectorn/aTechnology 25%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jul 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VEA$215VIG$229
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

3 stocks are in both funds: 0.2% of VEA and 1.6% of VIG. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VEAin VIG
SUNB0.1%0.1%MRK0.1%1.4%RBA0.1%0.1%

Only in VEA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. RYRoyal Bank of Canada0.9%
  2. AZNAstraZeneca PLC0.9%
  3. SHELShell plc0.7%
  4. BHPBHP Group Limited0.7%
  5. TDThe Toronto-Dominion Bank0.6%
  6. UBSUBS Group AG0.5%

Only in VIG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AVGOBroadcom4.6%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.4.5%
  3. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation4.3%
  4. JPMJPMorgan Chase4.1%
  5. LLYEli Lilly3.9%
  6. XOMExxon Mobil Corporation2.8%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VEA: June 2026, VIG: July 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.