Compare VAS · ALFA · STW · SSO
VAS, ALFA, STW and SSO hold at least 313 companies between them. 8 are in every one of them, and VAS and STW are the most alike: 95.2% of each is the same companies.
We can see through 99.5% of these funds to individual companies. The rest is cash, bonds, or a fund whose holdings we cannot see, so every figure here is a floor.
Return, last year
Price only, last year, each fund starting at 100. Switch to total return to add distributions.
Side by side
| VAS | ALFA | STW | SSO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fund | Vanguard | VanEck | State Street | State Street |
| Asset class | ASX shares | ASX shares | ASX shares | ASX shares |
| Fee a year | 0.07% | 0.39% | 0.05% | 0.50% |
| Fund size | $23.3b | $28.0m | $6.8b | $27.8m |
| Holdings | 322 | 71 | 202 | 206 |
| 1Y price return | −3.6% | −6.3% | +0.6%only priced since 2026-03-26 | −0.4%only priced since 2026-09-25 |
| Distribution yield | 3.21% | 0.87% | Not yet | Not yet |
| Look-through coverage | 99.5% | 99.8% | 99.6% | 98.9% |
Holdings, fund by fund
- Materials
- Financials
- Industrials
- Consumer Discretionary
- Energy
- Everything else
- BHPBHP GROUP LIMITEDIn 3 of 4VAS11.9%ALFA11.1%STW11.7%SSOnot held
- CBACOMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA.In 3 of 4VAS9.5%ALFA5.1%STW9.5%SSOnot held
- ANZANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITEDIn 3 of 4VAS4.0%ALFA5.7%STW4.4%SSOnot held
- MQGMACQUARIE GROUP LIMITEDIn 3 of 4VAS3.1%ALFA5.0%STW3.2%SSOnot held
- NABNATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITEDIn 3 of 4VAS4.2%ALFA1.3%STW4.6%SSOnot held
- WBCWESTPAC BANKING CORPORATIONIn 3 of 4VAS4.2%ALFA1.2%STW4.5%SSOnot held
- WDSWOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTDIn 3 of 4VAS2.2%ALFA4.1%STW2.3%SSOnot held
- WOWWOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITEDIn 3 of 4VAS1.7%ALFA3.8%STW1.8%SSOnot held
- CSLCSL LIMITEDIn 3 of 4VAS2.9%ALFA0.8%STW3.3%SSOnot held
- WESWESFARMERS LIMITEDIn 3 of 4VAS3.2%ALFA0.8%STW3.2%SSOnot held
What each fund is in
Each figure is the company's weight inside that fund, so the funds are read against each other and nothing is added up. A company listed on two exchanges counts once in a fund. Each bar in the mix is one fund as 100% of itself. Cash, bonds and funds we cannot open that come to under 1% of a bar are in Everything else.
What VAS already gives you
- VAS and STW share 196 companies95.2%VAS and STW hold 95% the same companies.
- VAS and ALFA share 50 companies51.5%
- VAS and SSO share 196 companies10.0%A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
- ALFA and STW share 45 companies53.0%
- ALFA and SSO share 13 companies9.2%A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
- STW and SSO share 99 companies7.8%A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
Overlap is the smaller weight in every company both funds hold: the share of each fund the other already covers. Grouped by company, so a listing on two exchanges is one holding.
What each fund changed
Reading the holdings history…
Holdings are published monthly, so this is the last publication, not this week. A re-weight counts once it moves 0.25 points of the fund or more — below that, weights are just prices moving.