IEFAvsVEA

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF or Vanguard Developed Markets ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 6.5% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 40 stocks in both. VEA costs 0.03% a year against 0.07% for IEFA, $4 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IEFA returned +24.8% and VEA +28.6%.

6.5%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IEFA8.6% in stocks the other holds too
VEA6.5% 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.

IEFAVEAYearly cost0.07%0.03%Net assets$190.1B$316.4BPositions2,6323,908Last 12 months+24.8%+28.6%3 years, a year+16.1%+19.3%5 years, a year+8.9%+10.1%Largest holdingASML 2.5%Samsung 3.5%Main sectorn/an/aHoldings as ofJul 31, 2026Jun 30, 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

IEFA$197VEA$215
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

40 stocks are in both funds: 8.6% of IEFA and 6.5% of VEA. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin IEFAin VEA
AZN1.0%0.9%SHEL1.0%0.7%BHP0.8%0.7%UBS0.7%0.5%TTE0.7%0.5%RIO0.6%0.4%BBVA0.6%0.4%GSK0.4%0.3%NWG0.3%0.2%DB0.3%0.2%

Only in IEFA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. SPOTSpotify Technology S.A.0.3%
  2. NBISNebius Group N.V.0.1%
  3. AERAerCap Holdings N.V.0.1%
  4. CHKPCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd.0.0%
  5. TIGOMillicom International Cellular S.A.0.0%
  6. GRABGrab Holdings Limited0.0%

Only in VEA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. RYRoyal Bank of Canada0.9%
  2. TDThe Toronto-Dominion Bank0.6%
  3. BMOBank of Montreal0.4%
  4. ENBEnbridge Inc.0.4%
  5. CMCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce0.3%
  6. CNQCanadian Natural Resources Limited0.2%

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IEFA: July 2026, VEA: June 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.