VIGvsVWO

Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF or Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VIG costs 0.04% a year against 0.06% for VWO, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VIG returned +18.0% and VWO +20.5%.

0%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VIG0% 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.

VIGVWOYearly cost0.04%0.06%Net assets$130.9B$162.0BPositions3416,393Last 12 months+18.0%+20.5%3 years, a year+14.9%+14.2%5 years, a year+10.4%+6.1%Largest holdingAVGO 4.6%Taiwan 15.6%Main sectorTechnology 25%n/aHoldings as ofJul 31, 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.

VIG$231VWO$172
August 2019July 2026

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%

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%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VIG: July 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.