ETF comparison
ESGD vs SCHF
Both International Developed.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
353 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGD and SCHF would leave roughly 55.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHF is 17 bps cheaper than ESGD. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for ESGD.
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 ESGD vs SCHF.
Top shared holdings
353 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGD | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.80% | 1.95% | 1.95% |
| 2 | Novartis AG | 1.76% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 1.36% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 4 | AstraZeneca PLC | 1.22% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.98% | 1.14% | 0.98% |
| 6 | Nestle SA | 1.17% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 7 | Shell PLC | 0.85% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | Toyota Motor Corp | 0.80% | 0.89% | 0.80% |
| 9 | Siemens AG | 1.11% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.76% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 11 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.93% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 12 | SAP SE | 1.06% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
Only in ESGD
9 total- Spotify Technology SA 0.31%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.12%
- Sea Ltd 0.11%
- Grab Holdings Ltd 0.08%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.07%
- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd 0.07%
- Wix.com Ltd 0.05%
- Monday.com Ltd 0.04%
- Isracard Ltd 0.00%
Only in SCHF
1,126 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.41%
- SK hynix Inc 1.36%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.81%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.56%
- Shopify Inc 0.50%
- British American Tobacco PLC 0.45%
- Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd 0.43%
- Enbridge Inc 0.39%
- Cie Financiere Richemont SA 0.37%
- Bank of Montreal 0.35%
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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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