IEFAvsVTI

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF or Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VTI 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 VTI +23.2%.

0.2%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IEFA0.4% in stocks the other holds too
VTI0.6% 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.

IEFAVTIYearly cost0.07%0.03%Net assets$190.1B$2.3TPositions2,6323,546Last 12 months+24.8%+23.2%3 years, a year+16.1%+20.4%5 years, a year+8.9%+12.2%Largest holdingASML 2.5%NVDA 6.4%Main sectorn/aTechnology 36%Holdings 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$197VTI$270
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

7 stocks are in both funds: 0.4% of IEFA and 0.6% of VTI. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin IEFAin VTI
MRK0.1%0.4%PRU0.1%0.1%EQT0.1%0.0%SUNB0.1%0.0%MCY0.0%0.0%FOX0.0%0.0%LAND0.0%0.0%

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 VTI

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NVDANVIDIA Corporation6.4%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.5.9%
  3. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation3.8%
  4. AMZNAmazon3.2%
  5. GOOGLAlphabet Inc.2.9%
  6. AVGOBroadcom2.5%

More comparisons

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