ETF comparison
IEUR vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
936 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEUR and VEA would leave roughly 46.6% 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
VEA is 7 bps cheaper than IEUR. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for IEUR.
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 IEUR vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
936 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEUR | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 4.00% | 2.36% | 2.36% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 2.29% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 1.79% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 4 | Roche Holding AG | 1.92% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 5 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.61% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 1.61% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 7 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.52% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 8 | SHELL PLC | 1.60% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 9 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 1.27% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 10 | Allianz SE | 1.18% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 11 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 1.15% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | ABB Ltd | 0.96% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
Only in IEUR
73 total- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.46%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.24%
- AerCap Holdings N.V. 0.16%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 0.06%
- Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft 0.04%
- Porsche Automobil Holding SE 0.03%
- Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 0.03%
- ROSEBANK INDUSTRIES PLC 0.02%
- Octave Intelligence PLC 0.02%
- JET2 PLC 0.02%
Only in VEA
2,926 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.67%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 0.66%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.65%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.63%
- Kioxia Holdings Corp 0.60%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 0.59%
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- IEUR vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 40.6%
- IEUR vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 39.2%
- IEUR vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 37.3%
- IEUR vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 36.4%
More comparisons with VEA
- VEA vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 43.3%
- VEA vs BBEU · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF 40.8%
- VEA vs EFG · iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF 38.8%
- VEA vs EFV · iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF 36.7%
- VEA vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 36.2%
- VEA vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 28.5%
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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