ETF comparison
EFG vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
347 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFG and SPDW would leave roughly 39.7% 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
SPDW is 31 bps cheaper than EFG. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/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 SPDW.
Top shared holdings
347 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFG | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 5.92% | 2.28% | 2.28% |
| 2 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 2.38% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 3 | Roche Holding AG | 1.00% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 0.93% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 5 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.79% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 6 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 1.39% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 7 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.69% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 8 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.66% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 9 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 1.94% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 10 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.71% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 11 | ABB Ltd | 1.43% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 12 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 1.55% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
Only in EFG
12 total- SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. 0.27%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.13%
- RYANAIR HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.11%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 0.05%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 0.05%
- InPost S.A. 0.04%
- CVC CAPITAL PARTNERS PLC 0.03%
- CSG NV 0.03%
- Octave Intelligence PLC 0.02%
- Financiere de Tubize SA 0.02%
Only in SPDW
2,081 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Nestle SA 0.80%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
- Shell PLC 0.68%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.61%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.60%
- Allianz SE 0.53%
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- EFG vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 34.1%
- EFG vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 33.5%
- EFG vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 30.1%
- EFG vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 29.9%
More comparisons with SPDW
- SPDW vs EFV · iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF 38.2%
- SPDW vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 35.8%
- SPDW vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 29.0%
- SPDW vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 27.1%
- SPDW vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 25.6%
- SPDW vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 23.6%
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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