ETF comparison
EFV vs VXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
397 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EFV and VXUS would leave roughly 27.8% 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
VXUS is 26 bps cheaper than EFV. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 VXUS.
Top shared holdings
397 shared in total| # | Holding | In EFV | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 3.22% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 2 | Roche Holding AG | 1.78% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 1.66% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 4 | Nestle S.A. | 2.29% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 5 | SHELL PLC | 2.28% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 6 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 2.12% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 7 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.41% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 8 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 1.60% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 9 | Allianz SE | 1.68% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 10 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 1.54% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 11 | Iberdrola, S.A. | 1.31% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 12 | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. | 1.41% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
Only in EFV
7 total- Nebius Group N.V. 0.23%
- AerCap Holdings N.V. 0.22%
- Porsche Automobil Holding SE 0.06%
- Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 0.06%
- HKT Trust and HKT Limited 0.05%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 0.03%
- Octave Intelligence PLC 0.01%
Only in VXUS
8,339 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.10%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.83%
- ASML Holding NV 1.45%
- SK hynix Inc 1.43%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.87%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.67%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.63%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.58%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 0.48%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.46%
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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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