The US stock market continues to crush non-US stocks.
This is nothing new – the trend has been in place since early 2011.
Following the Great Financial Crisis, many well-known pundits and professional money managers were calling for a period of outperformance among international and emerging market stock markets.
While non-US stocks performed well from early 2009 through the spring of 2011, the last several years have been a stellar time for US equity market outperformance.
The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) is a cap-weighted proxy for the US stock market. The Vanguard All-World Ex-US ETF (VXUS) can be thought of as every other stock not domiciled in the USA (includes both developed and emerging economies).
I had a brief tweetstorm on these two ETFs over the weekend, and I thought it would be helpful to provide some context on the ETFs as well as the recent historical performance between the two.
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$VTI USA vs. $VXUS all-world ex-US since 2011
$VXUS Composition *Note that all information in remains 4 charts is sourced from Vanguard.
10 Year Extrapolated Annual Returns: $VTI (USA) +10.3% vs $VXUS (Non-USA) +3.0%
Median Market Cap:
$VTI $64B
$VXUS $26B
Price/Earnings (P/E)
$VTI 21x $VXUS 14x
Sector Breakdown:
$VTI 22% in Tech
$VXUS 12% in Tech
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