IEFAvsVXUS
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF or Vanguard Total International Stock ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 5.0% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 40 stocks in both. VXUS costs 0.05% a year against 0.07% for IEFA, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IEFA returned +24.8% and VXUS +27.4%.
The two funds
From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.
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.
What they both hold
40 stocks are in both funds: 8.6% of IEFA and 5.0% of VXUS. The biggest shared positions:
Only in IEFA
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in VXUS
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IEFA: July 2026, VXUS: 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.