IEFAvsIEMG

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF or iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. IEFA costs 0.07% a year against 0.09% for IEMG, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IEFA returned +24.8% and IEMG +51.6%.

0%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IEFA0% in stocks the other holds too
IEMG0% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

IEFAIEMGYearly cost0.07%0.09%Net assets$190.1B$162.0BPositions2,6322,700Last 12 months+24.8%+51.6%3 years, a year+16.1%+24.2%5 years, a year+8.9%+7.8%Largest holdingASML 2.5%Taiwan 12.5%Main sectorn/an/aHoldings as ofJul 31, 2026May 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

IEFA$202IEMG$208
September 2019May 2026

Only in IEFA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AZNAstraZeneca PLC1.0%
  2. SHELShell plc1.0%
  3. BHPBHP Group Limited0.8%
  4. TTETotalEnergies SE0.7%
  5. UBSUBS Group AG0.7%
  6. BBVABanco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.0.6%

Only in IEMG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AUAngloGold Ashanti plc0.3%
  2. NUNu Holdings Ltd.0.3%
  3. BAPCredicorp Ltd.0.2%
  4. SCCOSouthern Copper Corporation0.1%
  5. YUMCYum China Holdings, Inc.0.1%
  6. XPXP Inc.0.0%

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IEFA: July 2026, IEMG: May 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.