etf overlap · moderate overlap

VIG vs IWDA overlap

31% of VIG and IWDA is the same money, spread over 163 companies both funds hold.

Holdings as of August 31, 2026 · source: Vanguard (VIG), iShares (IWDA) · How we measured all 1,431 pairs

overlapfull holdings, by weight
31%of each fund is money the other holds at the same weight, across 163 shared companies.
VIG
31%64%
IWDA
31%68%
  • same money
  • same companies, extra weight
  • only in this fund
Overlap = the sum, over companies both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights. Cash and derivatives excluded.
01Shared

The companies you would own twice

held by bothtop 15 of 163
companyVIGIWDA
Apple Inc logoAAPLApple Inc4.50%5.54%
Visa Inc logoVVisa Inc2.50%0.71%
Walmart Inc logoWMTWalmart Inc1.96%0.56%
AbbVie Inc logoABBVAbbVie Inc1.93%0.55%
02Different

What only one of them gives you

only in VIG170 names
Royal Gold Inc logoRGLDRoyal Gold Inc0.09%
ITITTITT Inc0.08%
RGRGAReinsurance Group of America Inc0.07%
LELECOLincoln Electric Holdings Inc0.07%
CSCSLCarlisle Cos Inc0.06%
RNRNRRenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd0.06%
only in IWDA1,085 names
ALPHABET CLASS C logoGOOGALPHABET CLASS C1.77%
03Sectors

Where each fund puts its money

sectorsVIG vs IWDA, share of each fund
Information Technology25.47%30.95%
Financials21.74%15.55%
Health Care18.16%9.33%
Industrials11.39%10.65%
Consumer Staples9.06%5.07%
Consumer Discretionary4.03%8.49%
Communication Services0.00%8.19%
Energy3.42%4.35%
Materials3.25%3.12%
Utilities2.76%2.35%
Real Estate0.00%1.50%
04Questions

VIG and IWDA: what people ask

questions6 answered

How much do VIG and IWDA overlap?

31% by weight, as of August 31, 2026: moderate overlap. 163 companies appear in both funds; they make up 95% of VIG and 32% of IWDA.

Which stocks do VIG and IWDA both hold?

The largest shared positions are AAPL, MSFT, AVGO, LLY and JPM. Ranked by the smaller of the two weights, which is the part you would own twice.

Is it redundant to hold both VIG and IWDA?

Out of every $100 split evenly between them, about $31 (half in each fund) buys identical positions. The rest is exposure only one of the two funds gives you: 170 names only in VIG, 1,085 only in IWDA. Half in each behaves like 86 equally weighted stocks, against 56 for VIG alone and 83 for IWDA alone. Whether that duplication is a problem depends on the mix you want; this is a description, not advice.

What is IWDA, next to VIG?

IWDA is iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF (ISIN IE00B4L5Y983), an Irish-domiciled UCITS fund on the MSCI World index. Next to VIG, 31% of the money is the same, spread over 163 companies both hold, as of August 31, 2026.

Does the VIG vs IWDA overlap apply to other tickers?

Yes. IWDA also trades as SWDA (London, GBP; Borsa Italiana, EUR) and EUNL (Xetra, EUR). Each is the same portfolio in another currency, on another exchange or paying its dividends out, so VIG vs EUNL also overlaps 31%.

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 Vanguard and iShares 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.

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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.