ETF comparison
EFV vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
162 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFV and VPL would leave roughly 31.4% 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
VPL 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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
162 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFV | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 2.12% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
| 2 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 1.60% | 1.66% | 1.60% |
| 3 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 1.39% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 4 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 1.24% | 1.77% | 1.24% |
| 5 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 1.09% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 6 | Mitsubishi Corporation | 0.80% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 7 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 0.81% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 8 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 0.79% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 9 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 0.67% | 0.96% | 0.67% |
| 10 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 0.70% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 11 | MITSUI & CO., LTD. | 0.64% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 12 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 0.66% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
Only in EFV
242 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 3.22%
- Nestle S.A. 2.29%
- SHELL PLC 2.28%
- Roche Holding AG 1.78%
- Allianz SE 1.68%
- Novartis AG 1.66%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 1.54%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1.41%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 1.41%
- Iberdrola, S.A. 1.31%
Only in VPL
2,175 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
- SK hynix Inc 5.18%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.72%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.21%
- Hitachi Ltd 1.19%
- Advantest Corp 1.18%
- Sony Group Corp 1.14%
- Recruit Holdings Co Ltd 0.88%
- AIA Group Ltd 0.87%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.83%
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- EFV vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 27.8%
- EFV vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 23.3%
- EFV vs EWJ · iShares MSCI Japan ETF 23.3%
More comparisons with VPL
- VPL vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 31.2%
- VPL vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 31.1%
- VPL vs EFG · iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF 30.1%
- VPL vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 29.1%
- VPL vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 28.1%
- VPL vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 28.0%
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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