VXUSvsVYM

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VYM costs 0.04% a year against 0.05% for VXUS, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VXUS returned +27.4% and VYM +23.7%.

0.2%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VXUS0.2% in stocks the other holds too
VYM1.7% 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.

VXUSVYMYearly cost0.05%0.04%Net assets$645.9B$99.2BPositions8,868616Last 12 months+27.4%+23.7%3 years, a year+16.9%+16.8%5 years, a year+8.9%+12.2%Largest holdingTaiwan 4.1%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorn/aFinancial Services 22%Holdings 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.

VXUS$202VYM$227
August 2019July 2026

What they both hold

6 stocks are in both funds: 0.2% of VXUS and 1.7% of VYM. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VXUSin VYM
PRU0.1%0.2%MRK0.0%1.3%EQT0.0%0.1%APA0.0%0.1%MCY0.0%0.0%FOX0.0%0.0%

Only in VXUS

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. RYRoyal Bank of Canada0.7%
  2. SHELShell plc0.6%
  3. AZNAstraZeneca PLC0.6%
  4. BHPBHP Group Limited0.5%
  5. TDThe Toronto-Dominion Bank0.5%
  6. TTETotalEnergies SE0.4%

Only in VYM

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AVGOBroadcom7.4%
  2. JPMJPMorgan Chase3.8%
  3. XOMExxon Mobil Corporation2.6%
  4. JNJJohnson & Johnson2.5%
  5. CSCOCisco1.9%
  6. ABBVAbbVie1.8%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VXUS: July 2026, VYM: 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.