ETF comparison
EFG vs ESGD
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
193 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFG and ESGD would leave roughly 48.8% 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
ESGD is 14 bps cheaper than EFG. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for EFG.
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 EFG vs ESGD.
Top shared holdings
193 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFG | In ESGD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 5.92% | 3.11% | 3.11% |
| 2 | ABB Ltd | 1.43% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 3 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 2.38% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 4 | SAP SE | 1.77% | 1.03% | 1.03% |
| 5 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.71% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 6 | Roche Holding AG | 1.00% | 1.20% | 1.00% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.93% | 1.58% | 0.93% |
| 8 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 1.94% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 9 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 1.39% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 10 | Infineon Technologies AG | 0.87% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 11 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.79% | 1.24% | 0.79% |
| 12 | Sony Group Corporation | 1.26% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
Only in EFG
166 total- COMPAGNIE FINANCIERE RICHEMONT SA 1.18%
- Kioxia Holdings Corporation 0.81%
- L'AIR LIQUIDE SOCIETE ANONYME POUR L'ETUDE ET L'EXPLOITATION DES PROCEDES GEORGES CLAUDE SA 0.76%
- Investor Aktiebolag 0.69%
- VINCI SA 0.61%
- COMPASS GROUP PLC 0.50%
- Ferrari N.V. 0.44%
- RWE Aktiengesellschaft 0.39%
- GOODMAN GROUP 0.38%
- TDK CORPORATION 0.34%
Only in ESGD
166 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.38%
- Nestle S.A. 1.13%
- SHELL PLC 0.88%
- Iberdrola, S.A. 0.83%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.82%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 0.81%
- Allianz SE 0.68%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 0.67%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 0.66%
- ING Groep N.V. 0.65%
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- ESGD vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 34.9%
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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