IEFA holdings and overlap

Name: IEFA holdings, overlap with other US ETFs, cost and risk
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iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) holds 2,625 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-15. Its three largest are ASML Holding (ASML.NL) at 2.56%, HSBC Holdings PLC (HSBA.GB) at 1.29% and Roche PS Par AG (ROP.CH) at 1.29%, and its ten largest make up 12.2% of the fund.

In its iShares file of 2026-10-15, IEFA is 21.2% financials, 15.4% industrials and 8.9% technology by sector (no sector found for 14.0%), with none of it in mega-cap tech or in the ten largest US companies by market value. By country, 25.9% of IEFA is in Japan, 14.4% in the United Kingdom, 8.7% in Switzerland and 8.4% in France.

Edited by VoidLab Data through 2026-10-16 Last revised 2026-10-17

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IEFAiShares Core MSCI EAFE ETFInternational Large Blend, iShares, 2625 positions

Last close, 2026-10-15

$96.62 +0.78%

52-week range 85 to 101

Largest position

ASML.NL

2.56% of the ETF, ASML Holding

Positions

2625

12.2% in the ten largest

Cost per year

0.07%

$7 a year on $10,000

Assets

$190.2B

under management

Return, 3 years

+72.3%

cumulative, total return

Worst fall

-11.3%

peak to trough, 3 years, weekly closes

What does IEFA hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-15?

IEFA spreads its weight across 2625 positions, against a median of 1152 across the 29 International Large Blend funds with a page here. No fund in that group is larger than IEFA, whose assets are $190.2 billion.

The 100 largest of the 2,625 positions in IEFA's file; all 2,625 are in the fund's JSON file.
Rank	Company	Weight
1	ASML.NL ASML Holding	2.56%
2	HSBA.GB HSBC Holdings PLC	1.29%
3	ROP.CH Roche PS Par AG	1.29%
4	SHEL.GB Shell	1.2%
5	NOVN.CH Novartis AG	1.12%
6	AZN.GB Astrazeneca PLC	1.02%
7	NESN.CH Nestle SA	1.01%
8	8306.JP Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group	0.92%
9	SAP.DE SAP	0.92%
10	SIE.DE Siemens N AG	0.88%
11	BHP.AU BHP Group Ltd	0.82%
12	SAN.ES Banco Santander	0.77%
13	ALV.DE Allianz	0.73%
14	7203.JP Toyota Motor	0.73%
15	CBA.AU Commonwealth Bank of Australia	0.73%
16	TTE.FR Totalenergies	0.7%
17	6857.JP Advantest	0.64%
18	SU.FR Schneider Electric	0.64%
19	6501.JP Hitachi	0.63%
20	6098.JP Recruit Holdings Ltd	0.62%
21	RR.GB Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC	0.6%
22	IBE.ES Iberdrola	0.6%
23	UBSG.CH UBS Group AG	0.6%
24	8316.JP Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group	0.59%
25	8035.JP Tokyo Electron	0.58%
26	BBVA.ES Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA	0.58%
27	ABBN.CH ABB Ltd	0.57%
28	6758.JP Sony Group	0.57%
29	ULVR.GB Unilever PLC	0.57%
30	AIR.FR Airbus Group	0.52%
31	NOVOB.DK Novo Nordisk	0.51%
32	BP.GB BP PLC	0.51%
33	SAF.FR Safran SA	0.49%
34	AI.FR Lair Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour	0.49%
35	D05.SG DBS Group Holdings Ltd	0.47%
36	BATS.GB British American Tobacco	0.47%
37	8411.JP Mizuho Financial Group	0.47%
38	ENR.DE Siemens Energy N AG	0.46%
39	9984.JP Softbank Group Corp	0.46%
40	UCG.IT Unicredit	0.46%
41	CFR.CH Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA	0.46%
42	MC.FR LVMH	0.44%
43	OR.FR Loreal SA	0.44%
44	ZURN.CH Zurich Insurance Group AG	0.43%
45	GSK.GB Glaxosmithkline	0.4%
46	BNP.FR BNP Paribas SA	0.39%
47	DTE.DE Deutsche Telekom N AG	0.39%
48	ISP.IT Intesa Sanpaolo	0.39%
49	1299.HK AIA Group	0.39%
50	INGA.NL ING Groep	0.38%
51	RIO.GB Rio Tinto	0.38%
52	6861.JP Keyence	0.38%
53	285A.JP Kioxia Holdings	0.38%
54	8766.JP Tokio Marine Holdings	0.37%
55	8058.JP Mitsubishi	0.36%
56	9983.JP Fast Retailing	0.35%
57	SAN.FR Sanofi SA	0.35%
58	NAB.AU National Australia Bank	0.34%
59	WBC.AU Westpac Banking Corporation	0.34%
60	ANZ.AU ANZ Group Holdings Ltd	0.33%
61	LLOY.GB Lloyds Banking Group PLC	0.33%
62	SPOT Spotify Technology S.A.	0.31%
63	8001.JP Itochu	0.31%
64	MUV2.DE Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gese	0.31%
65	NG.GB National Grid PLC	0.31%
66	ENEL.IT Enel	0.31%
67	BARC.GB Barclays PLC	0.31%
68	IFX.DE Infineon Technologies AG	0.31%
69	CS.FR AXA SA	0.31%
70	BA.GB Bae Systems PLC	0.3%
71	O39.SG Oversea-Chinese Banking	0.3%
72	8031.JP Mitsui	0.29%
73	ABI.BE Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA	0.29%
74	7011.JP Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	0.29%
75	INVEB.SE Investor	0.29%
76	GLEN.GB Glencore PLC	0.29%
77	NWG.GB Natwest Group PLC	0.28%
78	6981.JP Murata Manufacturing	0.28%
79	REL.GB Relx PLC	0.27%
80	ITX.ES Industria de Diseno Textil SA	0.27%
81	MQG.AU Macquarie Group Ltd Def	0.25%
82	DB1.DE Deutsche Boerse AG	0.25%
83	CSL.AU CSL	0.25%
84	4063.JP Shin Etsu Chemical	0.25%
85	4502.JP Takeda Pharmaceutical	0.25%
86	WES.AU Wesfarmers	0.25%
87	6503.JP Mitsubishi Electric	0.24%
88	DHL.DE DHL AG	0.24%
89	6752.JP Panasonic Holdings	0.23%
90	AAL.GB Anglo American PLC	0.23%
91	DG.FR Vinci SA	0.23%
92	7974.JP Nintendo	0.23%
93	DBK.DE Deutsche Bank AG	0.23%
94	CPG.GB Compass Group PLC	0.22%
95	RHM.DE Rheinmetall AG	0.22%
96	9433.JP KDDI	0.21%
97	7741.JP Hoya	0.21%
98	NDAFI.FI Nordea Bank	0.21%
99	ARGX.BE Argenx	0.21%
100	SREN.CH Swiss Re AG	0.21%

The most recent file iShares has published for IEFA is dated 2026-10-15, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 2625 positions IEFA holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 53 ETFs with a page here that hold ASML.NL, and how their weights compare with the 2.56% IEFA gives it.

Category: International Large Blend, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-15, 100% of its stocks are outside the US; weighted by holding, they sit where 48% of their market's value is in larger companies (large: up to 78%); growth index funds hold 49% of their value against 49% for companies of the same sizes in the whole market (blend: within 10 points). How categories are set.

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How much money went into or out of IEFA?

IEFA's flow on the close of Monday, October 12, 2026 is not measured: the two measures of it, from its holdings, disagreed, as they do on a rebalance or a corporate action. Over its last 5 closes, a net inflow of $0, 1 of them measured.

2026-09-292026-10-12

From IEFA's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.

How is IEFA split by sector and country?

Sector	Weight	Weight bar
Financials	21.2%
Industrials	15.4%
Technology	8.9%
Health care	8.8%
Consumer discretionary	6.8%
Consumer staples	5.8%
Materials	5.8%
Energy	3.7%
Communication services	3.3%
Utilities	2.9%
Real estate	2.6%
No sector found	14.0%

Country	Weight	Weight bar
Japan	25.9%
United Kingdom	14.4%
Switzerland	8.7%
France	8.4%
Germany	8.0%
Australia	7.0%
Netherlands	5.2%
Sweden	3.7%
Spain	3.6%
Italy	3.0%
Other countries	11.3%

From its iShares file of 2026-10-15. How these are measured.

What did IEFA hold in its SEC reports since 2019?

In IEFA's SEC filings, its largest position went from Nestle SA (NESN.CH) at 1.95% on 2019-10-31 to ASML Holding NV (ASML.NL) at 2.50% on 2026-07-31, across 28 quarterly reports.

Largest in 2019

NESN.CH

1.95% on 2019-10-31

Largest in 2026

ASML.NL

2.50% on 2026-07-31

Ten largest

11.9%

10.0% in 2019

Quarterly reports

since 2019, SEC Form N-PORT

2019The ten largest positions, report by report2026

Report	Positions	Largest	Top 10
2019-10-31	2,365	NESN.CH 1.95%	10.0%
2020-10-31	2,495	NESN.CH 2.15%	10.4%
2021-10-31	2,928	NESN.CH 1.84%	10.9%
2022-10-31	2,990	NESN.CH 2.02%	12.7%
2023-10-31	2,869	NOVOB.DK 1.90%	13.0%
2024-10-31	2,678	NOVOB.DK 1.86%	12.1%
2025-10-31	2,600	ASML.NL 1.80%	10.9%
2026-07-31	2,535	ASML.NL 2.50%	11.9%

The first report, then the last of each year, of the 28 reports IEFA filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2019-10-31 to 2026-07-31, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/iefa/{date}.json. How these are read.

What does IEFA duplicate?

The ETF nearest to IEFA is IDEV: the two hold 86.1% of their weight in common, in the 2049 companies both own, and 98.6% of IEFA itself is also held there. Owning IEFA alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means holding mostly the same companies twice. IEFA is close to contained in IDEV.

ETF	Overlap by weight	Of IEFA held there	Of that ETF in IEFA	Companies in both
IDEV	86.1%	98.6%	87.5%	2049
EFA	85.1%	85.7%	100.0%	657
HEFA	85.1%	85.7%	100.0%	657
EFAX	76.9%	77.9%	98.4%	611
SPDW	76.5%	95.9%	78.9%	1710
SCHF	75.4%	91.0%	77.6%	1154
DFAI	75.1%	93.3%	85.4%	2053
VEA	75.1%	97.8%	76.9%	2379
EFAA	74.1%	84.0%	98.0%	638
QEFA	65.0%	84.2%	99.3%	613
ESGD	62.8%	66.2%	100.0%	330
IMFL	62.7%	86.7%	81.4%	919

SCHF's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-05-31, filed 2026-07-24. DFAI's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-07-31, filed 2026-09-24. VEA's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-28. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check IEFA against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.

What adds something different to IEFA?

IYR shares 0% of weight with IEFA and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.54 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with IEFA, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.

ETF	Name	Overlap by weight	Correlation, 3y	Companies in both
IYR	iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF	0.0%	0.54	0
USRT	iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF	0.0%	0.55	0
SOXX	iShares Semiconductor ETF	0.0%	0.60	0
USMV	iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF	0.0%	0.65	0
IJR	iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF	0.0%	0.67	0
THRO	iShares U.S. Thematic Rotation Active ETF	0.0%	0.68	1
VLUE	iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF	0.0%	0.70	0
IJH	iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF	0.0%	0.73	0

Cost, returns and risk

Expense ratio	0.07%
Dividend yield	3.40%
Total return, 1 year	13.6%
Total return, 3 years cumulative	72.3%
Total return, 5 years cumulative	48.8%
Volatility, annualised	14.8%
Worst fall, 3 years	-11.3%
Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns	0.77
Weight in the ten largest positions	12.2%
Largest single position	2.6%
Assets under management	$190.2B

Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from IEFA's SEC filing of 2025-11-21); the weight in the ten largest positions and the largest single position are from the issuer file of 2026-10-15; every other figure is computed here from weekly closes.

How it moves with the market

Against	Correlation, 3 years	Covariance, annualised, in percent squared
SPY	0.74often in step	156
QQQ	0.65loosely linked	186

Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.

Year by year

Year	Total return
2026	9.8%
2025	32.1%
2024	3.3%
2023	18.0%
2022	-15.2%

One year

IEFA 113 SPY 115

2025-10-242026-10-16

IEFA rebased to 100 a year ago, weekly closes, prices through 2026-10-16.

Where to go next

IGRO, iShares International Dividend Growth ETF
IMFL, Invesco International Developed Dynamic Multifactor ETF
INTF, iShares International Equity Factor ETF
IQLT, iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF
Run a portfolio x-ray to see what IEFA carries once you look through it
Compare IEFA against any other ETF in the builder

Holdings from the most recent file iShares has published, dated 2026-10-15. Prices through 2026-10-16. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.

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