IEFAvsVWO

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF or Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VWO costs 0.06% a year against 0.07% for IEFA, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IEFA returned +24.8% and VWO +20.5%.

0%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IEFA0% in stocks the other holds too
VWO0% 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.

IEFAVWOYearly cost0.07%0.06%Net assets$190.1B$162.0BPositions2,6326,393Last 12 months+24.8%+20.5%3 years, a year+16.1%+14.2%5 years, a year+8.9%+6.1%Largest holdingASML 2.5%Taiwan 15.6%Main sectorn/an/aHoldings as ofJul 31, 2026Jul 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

IEFA$200VWO$172
August 2019July 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 VWO

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. PDDPDD Holdings Inc.0.6%
  2. AUAngloGold Ashanti plc0.3%
  3. YUMCYum China Holdings, Inc.0.1%
  4. UMCUnited Microelectronics Corporation0.1%
  5. YMMFull Truck Alliance Co. Ltd.0.1%
  6. TMETencent Music Entertainment Group0.0%

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