etf overlap · heavy overlap
SPY vs VWCE overlap
60% of SPY and VWCE is the same money, spread over 429 companies both funds hold.
Holdings as of September 24, 2026 · source: SPDR (SPY), Vanguard (VWCE) · How we measured all 1,431 pairs
- same money
- same companies, extra weight
- only in this fund
The companies you would own twice
What only one of them gives you
Where each fund puts its money
SPY and VWCE: what people ask
How much do SPY and VWCE overlap?
60% by weight, as of September 24, 2026: heavy overlap. 429 companies appear in both funds; they make up 99% of SPY and 60% of VWCE.
Which stocks do SPY and VWCE 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 SPY and VWCE?
Out of every $100 split evenly between them, about $60 (half in each fund) buys identical positions. The rest is exposure only one of the two funds gives you: 75 names only in SPY, 3,366 only in VWCE. Half in each behaves like 67 equally weighted stocks, against 44 for SPY alone and 107 for VWCE alone. Whether that duplication is a problem depends on the mix you want; this is a description, not advice.
Is VWCE the European version of SPY?
Partly: 60% of the money in VWCE and SPY is the same, as of September 24, 2026. VWCE is Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (ISIN IE00BK5BQT80), an Irish-domiciled UCITS fund on the FTSE All-World index. European brokers generally don't sell US-listed ETFs such as SPY to retail clients, because those funds publish no KID (the PRIIPs key information document); UCITS funds do.
Does the SPY vs VWCE overlap apply to other tickers?
Yes. VWCE also trades as VWRA (London, USD) and VWRP (London, GBP), and VWRL (ISIN IE00B3RBWM25) is its distributing share class. Each is the same portfolio in another currency, on another exchange or paying its dividends out, so SPY vs VWRA also overlaps 60%.
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 SPDR 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.