ETF comparison
EFV vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
404 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFV and IXUS would leave roughly 29.7% 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
IXUS 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 IXUS.
Top shared holdings
404 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFV | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 3.22% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 2 | Roche Holding AG | 1.78% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 1.66% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 4 | Nestle S.A. | 2.29% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 5 | SHELL PLC | 2.28% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 6 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.41% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 7 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 2.12% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 8 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 1.24% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 9 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 1.18% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 10 | Allianz SE | 1.68% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 11 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 1.60% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 12 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 1.54% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in EFV
0 totalEvery EFV position is also held by IXUS.
Only in IXUS
4,085 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.60%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 0.49%
- THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 0.47%
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- EFV vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 23.3%
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- EFV vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 23.3%
More comparisons with IXUS
- 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%
- IXUS vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 23.5%
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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