ETF comparison
EFG vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
359 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFG and IXUS would leave roughly 29.9% 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
IXUS is 27 bps cheaper than EFG. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 IXUS.
Top shared holdings
359 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFG | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 5.92% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 2 | Roche Holding AG | 1.00% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 0.93% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 4 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 2.38% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 5 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.79% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 6 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.69% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 7 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 1.94% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 8 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.66% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 9 | SAP SE | 1.77% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 10 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.71% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 11 | UBS Group AG | 1.56% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 12 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 1.55% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in EFG
0 totalEvery EFG position is also held by IXUS.
Only in IXUS
4,130 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Nestle S.A. 0.60%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.60%
- SHELL PLC 0.60%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.56%
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- EFG vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 26.4%
- EFG vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 26.2%
- EFG vs FEZ · State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF 24.8%
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs EFV · iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF 29.7%
- IXUS vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 28.3%
- IXUS vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 28.0%
- IXUS vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
- IXUS vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 25.0%
- IXUS vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 24.1%
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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