ETF comparison
IEFA vs SCHF
Both International Developed.
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
1,167 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEFA and SCHF would leave roughly 76.4% 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
SCHF is 4 bps cheaper than IEFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for IEFA.
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 IEFA vs SCHF.
Top shared holdings
1,167 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEFA | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 2.50% | 2.10% | 2.10% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.42% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 3 | Roche Holding AG | 1.20% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 1.12% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 5 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.00% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 1.00% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 7 | SHELL PLC | 1.00% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 8 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.95% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 9 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.83% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.93% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 11 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.70% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 12 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.82% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
Only in IEFA
1,446 total- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.29%
- TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.16%
- SEA LIMITED 0.16%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.15%
- AerCap Holdings N.V. 0.10%
- TELECOM ITALIA SPA 0.06%
- CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. 0.04%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 0.04%
- STOREBRAND ASA 0.03%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.03%
Only in SCHF
308 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 3.32%
- SK hynix Inc 2.81%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.64%
- Shopify Inc 0.49%
- Enbridge Inc 0.40%
- Bank of Montreal 0.39%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.36%
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 0.34%
- Bank of Nova Scotia/The 0.34%
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- IEFA vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 63.6%
- IEFA vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 61.7%
- IEFA vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 61.5%
More comparisons with SCHF
- SCHF vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 71.8%
- SCHF vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 71.5%
- SCHF vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 69.7%
- SCHF vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 68.5%
- SCHF vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 68.4%
- SCHF vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 67.9%
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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