ETF comparison
AVDE vs IEFA
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
2,037 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDE and IEFA would leave roughly 50.0% 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 16 bps cheaper than AVDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for AVDE.
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 AVDE vs IEFA.
Top shared holdings
2,037 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDE | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roche Holding AG | 0.93% | 1.20% | 0.93% |
| 2 | UBS Group AG | 0.57% | 0.65% | 0.57% |
| 3 | Allianz SE | 0.56% | 0.74% | 0.56% |
| 4 | Safran SA | 0.54% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 5 | Nestle SA | 0.50% | 1.00% | 0.50% |
| 6 | Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 0.48% | 0.65% | 0.48% |
| 7 | BNP Paribas SA | 0.44% | 0.49% | 0.44% |
| 8 | Advantest Corp | 0.42% | 0.56% | 0.42% |
| 9 | Zurich Insurance Group AG | 0.42% | 0.44% | 0.42% |
| 10 | Deutsche Telekom AG | 0.46% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 11 | TotalEnergies SE | 0.41% | 0.67% | 0.41% |
| 12 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.40% | 1.00% | 0.40% |
Only in AVDE
1,292 total- ASML Holding NV 1.32%
- Shell PLC 0.85%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.83%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 0.62%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.61%
- Novartis AG 0.53%
- BP PLC 0.47%
- ING Groep NV 0.46%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.45%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 0.43%
Only in IEFA
576 total- ASML Holding N.V. 2.50%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
- Novartis AG 1.12%
- SHELL PLC 1.00%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 0.79%
- SAP SE 0.74%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 0.70%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 0.61%
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- AVDE vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 47.0%
- AVDE vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 45.4%
- AVDE vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 43.9%
- AVDE vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 43.9%
- AVDE vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 43.4%
More comparisons with IEFA
- IEFA vs EFV · iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF 48.9%
- IEFA vs EFG · iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF 48.2%
- IEFA vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 42.2%
- IEFA vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 35.9%
- IEFA vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 35.5%
- IEFA vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 32.3%
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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