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EFAV vs VOO

Low Volatility Factor vs US Large Cap.

iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

EFAV unmatched 99.2% Shared 0.0% VOO unmatched 99.7%

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 VOO only
504 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%
VOO

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$1.73T
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
1.06%
Top-10 conc.
36.4%

Sub-score comparison

80
Cost
97
82
Tax efficiency
88
88
Liquidity
100
93
Concentration
62
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Tracking quality
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EFAV sub-score VOO

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

Cost difference

VOO 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 VOO.

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 VOO

504 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 7.51%
  • Apple Inc 6.59%
  • Microsoft Corp 4.30%
  • Amazon.com Inc 3.62%
  • Alphabet Inc 3.25%
  • Broadcom Inc 2.77%
  • Alphabet Inc 2.59%
  • Micron Technology Inc 2.02%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.92%
  • Tesla Inc 1.84%

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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.