ETF comparison
EFA vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI EAFE ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
660 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFA and SPDW would leave roughly 67.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPDW is 29 bps cheaper than EFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for EFA.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with EFA vs SPDW.
Top shared holdings
660 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFA | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 2.90% | 2.28% | 2.28% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.66% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 3 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.17% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 1.39% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 1.30% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 1.17% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 7 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 1.08% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.10% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 9 | SHELL PLC | 1.17% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 10 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 0.68% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 11 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.97% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 12 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.81% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
Only in EFA
14 total- Nebius Group N.V. 0.17%
- SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. 0.13%
- RYANAIR HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.05%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 0.04%
- WH GROUP LIMITED 0.04%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 0.03%
- SITC International Holdings Co Ltd 0.03%
- Financiere de Tubize SA 0.02%
- InPost S.A. 0.02%
- CSG NV 0.02%
Only in SPDW
1,768 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.60%
- Shopify Inc 0.42%
- Bank of Montreal 0.38%
- Enbridge Inc 0.35%
- Bank of Nova Scotia/The 0.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.33%
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 0.32%
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- SPDW vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 64.8%
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- SPDW vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 63.5%
- SPDW vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 58.6%
- SPDW vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 51.8%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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