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EFAV vs SPY

Low Volatility Factor vs US Large Cap.

iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFAV and SPY would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EFAV unmatched 99.2% Shared 0.0% SPY unmatched 100.0%

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.

In EFAV only
253 positions
Shared
0 positions
In SPY only
505 positions

Side by side

EFAV

iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF

iShares · Low Volatility Factor

84 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.20%
Net assets
$5.28B
TTM yield
2.98%
Top-10 conc.
14.6%
SPY

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

State Street · US Large Cap

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.094%
Net assets
$809.22B
TTM yield
1.00%
Top-10 conc.
37.9%

Sub-score comparison

80
Cost
91
82
Tax efficiency
89
88
Liquidity
100
93
Concentration
60
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Tracking quality
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EFAV sub-score SPY

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SPY is 11 bps cheaper than EFAV. On a $100,000 position that's about $106/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 SPY.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 SPY

505 total
  • NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
  • APPLE INC 7.32%
  • MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
  • ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
  • BROADCOM INC 2.54%
  • ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
  • META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
  • MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
  • TESLA INC 1.57%

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.