ETF comparison
EFV vs VWO
International Developed vs International Emerging.
iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFV and VWO would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VWO is 25 bps cheaper than EFV. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFV | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
Only in EFV
403 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 3.22%
- Nestle S.A. 2.29%
- SHELL PLC 2.28%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 2.12%
- Roche Holding AG 1.78%
- Allianz SE 1.68%
- Novartis AG 1.66%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1.60%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 1.54%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1.41%
Only in VWO
4,979 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
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- VWO vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
- VWO vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open EFV or VWO at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.