ETF comparison
AVDV vs IEFA
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
783 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDV and IEFA would leave roughly 4.8% 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 29 bps cheaper than AVDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 IEFA.
Top shared holdings
783 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDV | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd | 0.15% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 2 | Bankinter SA | 0.07% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 3 | Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd | 0.27% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd | 0.44% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Hiscox Ltd | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | St James's Place PLC | 0.09% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | ICG PLC | 0.06% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | NKT A/S | 0.36% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | thyssenkrupp AG | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | IG Group Holdings PLC | 0.13% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Sandfire Resources Ltd | 0.17% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | AL Sydbank | 0.30% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in AVDV
924 total- B2Gold Corp 0.64%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.62%
- OceanaGold Corp 0.55%
- Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd 0.51%
- Johnson Matthey PLC 0.48%
- Centerra Gold Inc 0.46%
- SSR Mining Inc 0.40%
- Whitecap Resources Inc 0.37%
- Fortuna Mining Corp 0.37%
- Baytex Energy Corp 0.36%
Only in IEFA
1,830 total- ASML Holding N.V. 2.50%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
- Roche Holding AG 1.20%
- Novartis AG 1.12%
- Nestle S.A. 1.00%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.00%
- SHELL PLC 1.00%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 0.95%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%
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- AVDV vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 3.6%
- AVDV vs IEUR · iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 3.4%
- AVDV vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 3.3%
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- IEFA vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 3.6%
- IEFA vs EWP · iShares MSCI Spain ETF 3.5%
- IEFA vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 3.2%
- IEFA vs EWH · iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF 1.6%
- IEFA vs EWS · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF 1.6%
- IEFA vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 0.2%
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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