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ITOT vs VUAA overlap
89% of ITOT and VUAA is the same money, spread over 502 companies both funds hold.
Holdings as of September 30, 2026 · source: iShares (ITOT), Vanguard (VUAA) · How we measured all 1,431 pairs
- same money
- same companies, extra weight
- only in this fund
What only one of them gives you
Where each fund puts its money
ITOT and VUAA: what people ask
Is VUAA the same as ITOT?
Nearly: 89% of the money in ITOT and VUAA sits in the same companies at the same weights, as of September 30, 2026. The other 11% is weight differences, plus 1,923 names only in ITOT and 1 only in VUAA.
How much do ITOT and VUAA overlap?
89% by weight, as of September 30, 2026: nearly the same fund. 502 companies appear in both funds; they make up 89% of ITOT and 100% of VUAA.
Which stocks do ITOT and VUAA both hold?
The largest shared positions are NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN and GOOGL. Ranked by the smaller of the two weights, which is the part you would own twice.
Is it redundant to hold both ITOT and VUAA?
Out of every $100 split evenly between them, about $89 (half in each fund) buys identical positions. The rest is exposure only one of the two funds gives you: 1,923 names only in ITOT, 1 only in VUAA. Half in each behaves like 49 equally weighted stocks, against 55 for ITOT alone and 43 for VUAA alone. Whether that duplication is a problem depends on the mix you want; this is a description, not advice.
Is VUAA the European version of ITOT?
Partly: 89% of the money in VUAA and ITOT is the same, as of September 30, 2026. VUAA is Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (ISIN IE00BFMXXD54), an Irish-domiciled UCITS fund on the S&P 500 index. European brokers generally don't sell US-listed ETFs such as ITOT to retail clients, because those funds publish no KID (the PRIIPs key information document); UCITS funds do.
Does the ITOT vs VUAA overlap apply to other tickers?
Yes. VUAA also trades as VUAG (London, GBP), and VUSA (ISIN IE00B3XXRP09) is its distributing share class. Each is the same portfolio in another currency, on another exchange or paying its dividends out, so ITOT vs VUAG also overlaps 89%.
How is ETF overlap calculated here?
For every company held by both funds we take the smaller of its two weights and add them up. The weights come from the full holdings files iShares and Vanguard publish, not a top-10 sample, and companies are matched by their ISIN so share classes stay apart. Sector overlap applies the same rule to the issuers' sector labels; "behaves like N equally weighted stocks" is one over the sum of the squared weights.
Weights come from each issuer's published holdings file and are matched company by company on their ISIN. Cash, futures and currency positions are left out. This page describes what the funds hold; it is not investment advice.