ETF comparison
IEFA vs VSGX
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
1,915 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEFA and VSGX would leave roughly 54.8% 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 3 bps cheaper than VSGX. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VSGX.
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 IEFA vs VSGX.
Top shared holdings
1,915 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEFA | In VSGX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 2.50% | 1.95% | 1.95% |
| 2 | Roche Holding AG | 1.20% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 1.12% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 4 | Nestle S.A. | 1.00% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 5 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.93% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 6 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.95% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 7 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 1.00% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 8 | SAP SE | 0.74% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 9 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.79% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 10 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.70% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 11 | Allianz SE | 0.74% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 12 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.82% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
Only in IEFA
698 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
- SHELL PLC 1.00%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%
- SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE 0.72%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 0.67%
- ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC 0.65%
- ABB Ltd 0.60%
- Iberdrola, S.A. 0.58%
- Hitachi, Ltd. 0.56%
- Airbus SE 0.54%
Only in VSGX
4,685 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.43%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.59%
- SK hynix Inc 2.00%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- MediaTek Inc 0.54%
- Bank of Montreal 0.36%
- Bank of Nova Scotia/The 0.34%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.32%
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- IEFA vs BBEU · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF 52.6%
- IEFA vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 50.0%
- 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%
More comparisons with VSGX
- VSGX vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 48.9%
- VSGX vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 34.2%
- VSGX vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 28.0%
- VSGX vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 27.6%
- VSGX vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 20.6%
- VSGX vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 72.2%
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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