ETF comparison
EZU vs IEFA
Both International Developed.
Holdings overlap
219 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EZU and IEFA would leave roughly 30.1% 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 43 bps cheaper than EZU. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for EZU.
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 EZU vs IEFA.
Top shared holdings
219 shared in total| # | Holding | In EZU | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 8.38% | 2.50% | 2.50% |
| 2 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 3.13% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 3 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 2.67% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 4 | SAP SE | 2.93% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 5 | Allianz SE | 2.53% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 6 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE | 2.39% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 7 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 2.21% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 8 | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. | 2.07% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 9 | Iberdrola, S.A. | 1.84% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 10 | Airbus SE | 1.73% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 11 | LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE | 1.66% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 12 | SAFRAN SA | 1.72% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
Only in EZU
1 total- Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA 0.28%
Only in IEFA
2,394 total- 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%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 0.82%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 0.70%
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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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