VUG vs SMEA overlap

None by holdings, as of August 31, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 35% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Information Technology.

None. VUG and SMEA have no holding in common.

No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 532 different holdings that behave like 59 equally weighted stocks, against 17 for VUG alone and 104 for SMEA alone. Whether that mix suits you depends on what you want to own; this is a description, not advice.

SMEA is iShares Core MSCI Europe UCITS ETF EUR (Acc) (ISIN IE00B4K48X80), an Irish-domiciled UCITS fund on the MSCI Europe index. Next to VUG, it holds no company in common, as of August 31, 2026.

Yes. SMEA also trades as IMAE (Euronext Amsterdam, EUR) and EUNK (Xetra, EUR). Each is the same portfolio in another currency, on another exchange or paying its dividends out, so VUG and EUNK share no company either.

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.