ETF comparison
EFG vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
347 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFG and VEA would leave roughly 38.8% 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
VEA 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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
347 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFG | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 5.92% | 2.36% | 2.36% |
| 2 | Novartis AG | 0.93% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 3 | Roche Holding AG | 1.00% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 4 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 2.38% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 5 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.79% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 6 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 1.39% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 7 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.69% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 8 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.66% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 9 | Kioxia Holdings Corporation | 0.81% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 10 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 1.94% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 11 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.71% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | ABB Ltd | 1.43% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
Only in EFG
12 total- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.68%
- SEA LIMITED 0.38%
- TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.38%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.13%
- CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. 0.09%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 0.08%
- Futu Holdings Limited 0.06%
- Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft 0.06%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 0.05%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 0.05%
Only in VEA
3,515 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
- Shell PLC 0.67%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.67%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.63%
- Allianz SE 0.56%
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- 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%
- EFG vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 27.4%
More comparisons with VEA
- VEA vs EFV · iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF 36.7%
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- VEA vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 28.5%
- VEA vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 28.4%
- VEA vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
- VEA vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 26.7%
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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