ETF comparison
EFA vs VT
International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI EAFE ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
667 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFA and VT would leave roughly 19.1% 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
VT is 26 bps cheaper than EFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 VT.
Top shared holdings
667 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFA | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 2.90% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.66% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 1.30% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 1.39% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 5 | SHELL PLC | 1.17% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 1.17% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 7 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.17% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 1.08% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 9 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.10% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 10 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.97% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.95% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.93% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in EFA
7 total- TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.18%
- SEA LIMITED 0.18%
- Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft 0.03%
- HKT Trust and HKT Limited 0.03%
- Futu Holdings Limited 0.03%
- Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 0.02%
- Porsche Automobil Holding SE 0.02%
Only in VT
9,383 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
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- EFA vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 17.2%
- EFA vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 14.7%
- EFA vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 10.5%
- EFA vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 9.8%
- EFA vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 9.4%
More comparisons with VT
- VT vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 19.0%
- VT vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 18.7%
- VT vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 18.5%
- VT vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 15.0%
- VT vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 13.8%
- VT vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 13.5%
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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