ETF comparison
EFV vs IEFA
Both International Developed.
Holdings overlap
404 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFV and IEFA would leave roughly 48.9% 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
IEFA is 24 bps cheaper than EFV. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for EFV.
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 EFV vs IEFA.
Top shared holdings
404 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFV | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 3.22% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 2 | Roche Holding AG | 1.78% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 1.66% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 4 | Nestle S.A. | 2.29% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 5 | SHELL PLC | 2.28% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 6 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.41% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 7 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 2.12% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 8 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 1.24% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 9 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 1.18% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 10 | Allianz SE | 1.68% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 11 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 1.60% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 12 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 1.54% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
Only in EFV
0 totalEvery EFV position is also held by IEFA.
Only in IEFA
2,209 total- ASML Holding N.V. 2.50%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.00%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 0.82%
- SAP SE 0.74%
- SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE 0.72%
- UBS Group AG 0.65%
- ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC 0.65%
- ABB Ltd 0.60%
- NOVO NORDISK A/S 0.59%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 0.58%
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- EFV vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 46.2%
- EFV vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 43.3%
- EFV vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 42.3%
- EFV vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 40.7%
More comparisons with IEFA
- IEFA vs EFG · iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF 48.2%
- IEFA vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 42.2%
- IEFA vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 35.9%
- IEFA vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 35.5%
- IEFA vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 32.3%
- IEFA vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 30.1%
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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