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Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF logoVanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF logoVTI vs VWO overlap

VTI and VWO hold no company in common. Still, 76% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Information Technology.

Holdings as of August 31, 2026 · source: Vanguard (VTI), Vanguard (VWO)

overlapfull holdings, by weight
0.0%of each fund is money the other holds at the same weight, across 0 shared companies.
VTI
100%
VWO
100%
  • 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.
01Different

What only one of them gives you

only in VTI3,503 names
Alphabet Inc logoGOOGAlphabet Inc2.12%
only in VWO4,996 names
232330Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd14.68%
70700Tencent Holdings Ltd2.89%
999988Alibaba Group Holding Ltd2.18%
242454MediaTek Inc1.46%
232308Delta Electronics Inc0.90%
93939China Construction Bank Corp0.86%
232317Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd0.77%
RERELIANCEReliance Industries Ltd0.72%
02Sectors

No stock in common, 76% in the same sectors

sectorsVTI vs VWO, share of each fund
Information Technology34.64%29.37%
Financials11.93%18.12%
Consumer Discretionary8.55%8.46%
Communication Services8.72%5.92%
Industrials8.59%5.79%
Health Care9.55%3.24%
Materials1.81%6.87%
Consumer Staples4.05%2.91%
Energy3.40%3.35%
Utilities1.88%2.20%
Real Estate1.90%1.63%
Not classified4.64%7.22%
03Questions

VTI and VWO: what people ask

questions4 answered

How much do VTI and VWO overlap?

None by holdings, as of August 31, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 76% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Information Technology.

Which stocks do VTI and VWO both hold?

None. VTI and VWO have no holding in common.

Is it redundant to hold both VTI and VWO?

No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 8,499 different holdings that behave like 91 equally weighted stocks, against 59 for VTI alone and 37 for VWO alone. Whether that mix suits you depends on what you want to own; this is a description, not advice.

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 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.