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EFAV vs VB

Low Volatility Factor vs US Small Cap.

iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EFAV unmatched 99.2% Shared 0.0% VB unmatched 99.8%

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 VB only
1,309 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%
VB

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$175.77B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.27%
Top-10 conc.
4.3%

Sub-score comparison

80
Cost
97
82
Tax efficiency
88
88
Liquidity
100
93
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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EFAV sub-score VB

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

Cost difference

VB is 17 bps cheaper than EFAV. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/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 VB.

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 VB

1,309 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
  • Jabil Inc 0.49%
  • REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
  • Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
  • Natera Inc 0.45%
  • EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
  • Twilio Inc 0.38%
  • NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
  • MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
  • Flex Ltd 0.36%

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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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