iShares MSCI EAFE ETF
iShares · Tracks MSCI EAFE Index · Inception Aug 14, 2001
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +12.9%
- 3 year
- +19.2%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +8.4%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.32% expense ratio.
Based on $76.70B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 13.9% of net assets.
International Developed base · ETF wrapper · 3.28% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 2.90% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.66% |
| 3 | Roche Holding AG | 1.39% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 1.30% |
| 5 | Nestle S.A. | 1.17% |
| 6 | SHELL PLC | 1.17% |
| 7 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.17% |
| 8 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 1.10% |
| 9 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 1.08% |
| 10 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.97% |
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