ETF comparison
AVDV vs EFA
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDV and EFA would leave roughly 0.2% 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
EFA is 4 bps cheaper than AVDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for AVDV.
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 AVDV vs EFA.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDV | In EFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bankinter SA | 0.07% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 2 | Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd | 0.15% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 3 | Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd | 0.27% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd | 0.44% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | InPost SA | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Phoenix Financial Ltd | 0.01% | 0.06% | 0.01% |
| 7 | ROCKWOOL A/S | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | ASR Nederland NV | 0.00% | 0.06% | 0.00% |
| 9 | Ayvens SA | 0.00% | 0.02% | 0.00% |
Only in AVDV
1,698 total- AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG 1.09%
- Perseus Mining Ltd 0.69%
- Regis Resources Ltd 0.65%
- B2Gold Corp 0.64%
- Whitbread PLC 0.63%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.62%
- Lion Finance Group PLC 0.60%
- Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd 0.57%
- Burberry Group PLC 0.56%
- OceanaGold Corp 0.55%
Only in EFA
665 total- ASML Holding N.V. 2.90%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.66%
- Roche Holding AG 1.39%
- Novartis AG 1.30%
- Nestle S.A. 1.17%
- SHELL PLC 1.17%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.17%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1.10%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 1.08%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.97%
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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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