ETF comparison
EFAV vs IJR
Low Volatility Factor vs US Small Cap.
iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFAV and IJR would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IJR is 14 bps cheaper than EFAV. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for EFAV.
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 EFAV vs IJR.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in EFAV
253 total- SECOM CO., LTD. 1.55%
- Iberdrola, S.A. 1.53%
- SHELL PLC 1.51%
- EQUINOR ASA 1.47%
- ENI S.P.A. 1.46%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.45%
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 1.41%
- Novartis AG 1.41%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 1.38%
- BOC HONG KONG (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 1.38%
Only in IJR
603 total- FORMFACTOR INC 0.67%
- VIASAT INC 0.66%
- MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC 0.64%
- ARGAN INC 0.60%
- BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES INC 0.60%
- ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC 0.59%
- MAXLINEAR INC 0.58%
- KRYSTAL BIOTECH INC 0.53%
- ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.49%
- MATCH GROUP INC 0.48%
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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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