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XAW vs VXC overlap
89% of XAW and VXC is the same money, spread over 6,692 companies both funds hold.
Holdings as of November 9, 2026 (XAW) and September 30, 2026 (VXC) · source: iShares (XAW), Vanguard (VXC) · How we measured all 1,431 pairs
- same money
- same companies, extra weight
- only in this fund
XAW holds other funds, not stocks: iShares Canada publishes every security behind them, and those are the lines compared here. Its file gives a ticker and a country but no ISIN; 99.8% of its stock money was matched to one.
VXC holds 4 Vanguard funds, not stocks: VV 57.4%, VIU 25.4%, VWO 10.5%, VB 6.4%. Each is read through with Vanguard's own file of the same month-end, so the lines here are the 10,392 stocks behind them. Vanguard's files give an ISIN with each line: 99.9% of its stock money is matched on one.
Hold XAW and VXC with other funds or stocks? The free portfolio optimizer opens XAW and VXC beside the rest of what you own: the companies you hold twice, what the funds cost a year, and where the next deposit should go. No account.
The companies you would own twice
GOOGALPHABET CLASS C1.23%1.42%
What only one of them gives you
SPOTSPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY0.08%
Where each fund puts its money
XAW and VXC: what people ask
Is VXC the same as XAW?
Nearly: 89% of the money in XAW and VXC sits in the same companies at the same weights, as of September 30, 2026. The other 11% is weight differences, plus 1,274 names only in XAW and 3,700 only in VXC.
How much do XAW and VXC overlap?
89% by weight, as of September 30, 2026: nearly the same fund. 6,692 companies appear in both funds; they make up 98% of XAW and 97% of VXC.
Which stocks do XAW and VXC both hold?
The largest shared positions are AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, AMZN and 2330. Ranked by the smaller of the two weights, which is the part you would own twice.
Is it redundant to hold both XAW and VXC?
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: 1,274 names only in XAW, 3,700 only in VXC. Half in each behaves like 122 equally weighted stocks, against 124 for XAW alone and 118 for VXC alone. Whether that duplication is a problem depends on the mix you want; 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 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.