VEAvsVWO

Vanguard Developed Markets ETF or Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VEA costs 0.03% a year against 0.06% for VWO, $3 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VEA returned +28.6% and VWO +20.5%.

0%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VEA0% in stocks the other holds too
VWO0% 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.

VEAVWOYearly cost0.03%0.06%Net assets$316.4B$162.0BPositions3,9086,393Last 12 months+28.6%+20.5%3 years, a year+19.3%+14.2%5 years, a year+10.1%+6.1%Largest holdingSamsung 3.5%Taiwan 15.6%Main sectorn/an/aHoldings 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$215VWO$175
August 2019June 2026

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 VWO

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. PDDPDD Holdings Inc.0.6%
  2. AUAngloGold Ashanti plc0.3%
  3. YUMCYum China Holdings, Inc.0.1%
  4. UMCUnited Microelectronics Corporation0.1%
  5. YMMFull Truck Alliance Co. Ltd.0.1%
  6. TMETencent Music Entertainment Group0.0%

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VEA: June 2026, VWO: 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.