ETF comparison
FEZ vs IEFA
Both International Developed.
State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FEZ and IEFA would leave roughly 20.0% 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
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Cost difference
IEFA is 22 bps cheaper than FEZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for FEZ.
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 FEZ vs IEFA.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In FEZ | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 10.39% | 2.50% | 2.50% |
| 2 | Siemens AG | 4.66% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 3 | Banco Santander SA | 4.01% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 4 | SAP SE | 3.06% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 5 | Allianz SE | 3.56% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 6 | Schneider Electric SE | 3.72% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 7 | TotalEnergies SE | 3.50% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 8 | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA | 2.78% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 9 | Iberdrola SA | 3.10% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 10 | Airbus SE | 2.59% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 11 | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE | 2.70% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 12 | Safran SA | 2.88% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
Only in FEZ
0 totalEvery FEZ position is also held by IEFA.
Only in IEFA
2,563 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
- Roche Holding AG 1.20%
- Novartis AG 1.12%
- Nestle S.A. 1.00%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.00%
- SHELL PLC 1.00%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 0.82%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 0.70%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with FEZ
- FEZ vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 17.6%
- FEZ vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 16.7%
- FEZ vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 15.7%
- FEZ vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- FEZ vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 15.4%
- FEZ vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 14.5%
More comparisons with IEFA
- IEFA vs EWJ · iShares MSCI Japan ETF 19.8%
- IEFA vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 19.8%
- IEFA vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 17.2%
- IEFA vs HEDJ · WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund 15.4%
- IEFA vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 13.9%
- IEFA vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 13.5%
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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