QEFA holdings and overlap
State Street SPDR MSCI EAFE StrategicFactors℠ ETF (QEFA) holds 624 positions in its SPDR file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are Roche Holding AG (ROP.CH) at 2.05%, Novartis AG (NOVN.CH) at 2.02% and ASML Holding NV (ASML.NL) at 2.02%, and its ten largest make up 15.2% of the fund.
In its SPDR file of 2026-10-27, QEFA is 18.6% financials, 14.7% industrials and 12.9% health care by sector (no sector found for 6.9%), with none of it in mega-cap tech or in the ten largest US companies by market value. By country, 23.8% of QEFA is in Japan, 14.5% in the United Kingdom, 12.1% in Switzerland and 7.8% in France.
What does QEFA hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
QEFA spreads its weight across 624 positions, against a median of 1152 across the 29 International Large Blend funds with a page here. 57 of the 594 funds with a page hold ROP.CH, and QEFA gives it more weight than all but 12 of them.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROP.CH Roche Holding AG | 2.05% | |
| 2 | NOVN.CH Novartis AG | 2.02% | |
| 3 | ASML.NL ASML Holding NV | 2.02% | |
| 4 | NESN.CH Nestle SA | 1.6% | |
| 5 | AZN.GB Astrazeneca PLC | 1.6% | |
| 6 | SHEL.GB Shell PLC | 1.4% | |
| 7 | SAP.DE SAP SE | 1.24% | |
| 8 | ULVR.GB Unilever PLC | 1.21% | |
| 9 | ALV.DE Allianz SE | 1.03% | |
| 10 | ZURN.CH Zurich Insurance Group AG | 1.01% | |
| 11 | BHP.AU BHP Group Ltd | 0.96% | |
| 12 | TTE.FR Totalenergies SE | 0.91% | |
| 13 | 6098.JP Recruit Holdings Co Ltd | 0.82% | |
| 14 | GSK.GB GSK PLC | 0.81% | |
| 15 | 6857.JP Advantest Corp | 0.79% | |
| 16 | NOVOB.DK Novo Nordisk A/S B | 0.77% | |
| 17 | BATS.GB British American Tobacco PLC | 0.76% | |
| 18 | ABBN.CH ABB Ltd | 0.75% | |
| 19 | AI.FR Air Liquide SA | 0.74% | |
| 20 | IBE.ES Iberdrola SA | 0.74% | |
| 21 | 4502.JP Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd | 0.7% | |
| 22 | OR.FR L Oreal | 0.7% | |
| 23 | D05.SG DBS Group Holdings Ltd | 0.69% | |
| 24 | EQNR.NO Equinor ASA | 0.67% | |
| 25 | ENI.IT Eni SPA | 0.67% | |
| 26 | 6758.JP Sony Group Corp | 0.66% | |
| 27 | HSBA.GB HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.64% | |
| 28 | BP.GB BP PLC | 0.62% | |
| 29 | 8035.JP Tokyo Electron Ltd | 0.61% | |
| 30 | 9735.JP Secom Co Ltd | 0.61% | |
| 31 | ITX.ES Industria de Diseno Textil | 0.59% | |
| 32 | MUV2.DE Muenchener Rueckver AG | 0.59% | |
| 33 | O39.SG Oversea Chinese Banking Corp | 0.58% | |
| 34 | 7203.JP Toyota Motor Corp | 0.57% | |
| 35 | SU.FR Schneider Electric SE | 0.57% | |
| 36 | 9983.JP Fast Retailing Co Ltd | 0.55% | |
| 37 | AIR.FR Airbus SE | 0.54% | |
| 38 | RR.GB Rolls Royce Holdings PLC | 0.53% | |
| 39 | SAMPO.FI Sampo OYJ A | 0.52% | |
| 40 | SCMN.CH Swisscom AG | 0.51% | |
| 41 | BA.GB Bae Systems PLC | 0.5% | |
| 42 | 8766.JP Tokio Marine Holdings Inc | 0.49% | |
| 43 | CPG.GB Compass Group PLC | 0.48% | |
| 44 | WES.AU Wesfarmers Ltd | 0.48% | |
| 45 | MC.FR LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vui | 0.48% | |
| 46 | DB1.DE Deutsche Boerse AG | 0.47% | |
| 47 | 8306.JP Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Gro | 0.46% | |
| 48 | 9433.JP KDDI Corp | 0.46% | |
| 49 | 9432.JP NTT Inc | 0.45% | |
| 50 | 2914.JP Japan Tobacco Inc | 0.45% | |
| 51 | SAN.ES Banco Santander SA | 0.45% | |
| 52 | 9434.JP Softbank Corp | 0.44% | |
| 53 | RIO.GB Rio Tinto PLC | 0.44% | |
| 54 | 6861.JP Keyence Corp | 0.44% | |
| 55 | 4684.JP Obic Co Ltd | 0.42% | |
| 56 | CFR.CH Cie Financiere Richemo A | 0.42% | |
| 57 | POLI.IL Bank Hapoalim BM | 0.42% | |
| 58 | SAN.FR Sanofi | 0.41% | |
| 59 | REL.GB Relx PLC | 0.39% | |
| 60 | 2.HK CLP Holdings Ltd | 0.39% | |
| 61 | 2388.HK Boc Hong Kong Holdings Ltd | 0.39% | |
| 62 | 8001.JP Itochu Corp | 0.38% | |
| 63 | ORA.FR Orange | 0.38% | |
| 64 | AD.NL Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N | 0.38% | |
| 65 | 7741.JP Hoya Corp | 0.37% | |
| 66 | CSL.AU CSL Ltd | 0.36% | |
| 67 | 6702.JP Fujitsu Limited | 0.35% | |
| 68 | U11.SG United Overseas Bank Ltd | 0.35% | |
| 69 | 6.HK Power Assets Holdings Ltd | 0.35% | |
| 70 | DTE.DE Deutsche Telekom AG | 0.34% | |
| 71 | 9020.JP East Japan Railway Co | 0.34% | |
| 72 | RACE.IT Ferrari NV | 0.34% | |
| 73 | CBA.AU Commonwealth Bank of Austral | 0.34% | |
| 74 | SPSN.CH Swiss Prime Site | 0.33% | |
| 75 | 8316.JP Sumitomo Mitsui Financial GR | 0.33% | |
| 76 | BBVA.ES Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argenta | 0.33% | |
| 77 | 5108.JP Bridgestone Corp | 0.32% | |
| 78 | BNP.FR BNP Paribas | 0.32% | |
| 79 | 4507.JP Shionogi + Co Ltd | 0.31% | |
| 80 | LUMI.IL Bank Leumi le Israel | 0.31% | |
| 81 | 4578.JP Otsuka Holdings Co Ltd | 0.31% | |
| 82 | 8058.JP Mitsubishi Corp | 0.3% | |
| 83 | BN.FR Danone | 0.3% | |
| 84 | 4503.JP Astellas Pharma Inc | 0.3% | |
| 85 | S68.SG Singapore Exchange Ltd | 0.3% | |
| 86 | GIVN.CH Givaudan | 0.3% | |
| 87 | PST.IT Poste Italiane SPA | 0.3% | |
| 88 | 7267.JP Honda Motor Co Ltd | 0.3% | |
| 89 | 4452.JP Kao Corp | 0.29% | |
| 90 | KNEBV.FI Kone OYJ B | 0.29% | |
| 91 | 9022.JP Central Japan Railway Co | 0.29% | |
| 92 | HLN.GB Haleon PLC | 0.29% | |
| 93 | TSCO.GB Tesco PLC | 0.29% | |
| 94 | ABI.BE Anheuser Busch Inbev SA/NV | 0.28% | |
| 95 | 388.HK Hong Kong Exchanges + Clear | 0.28% | |
| 96 | TCL.AU Transurban Group | 0.28% | |
| 97 | UCG.IT Unicredit SPA | 0.28% | |
| 98 | 7974.JP Nintendo Co Ltd | 0.28% | |
| 99 | NG.GB National Grid PLC | 0.28% | |
| 100 | RKT.GB Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | 0.27% |
The most recent file State Street SPDR has published for QEFA is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the State Street SPDR ETFs covered here. Every one of the 624 positions QEFA holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 56 ETFs with a page here that hold ROP.CH, and how their weights compare with the 2.05% QEFA gives it.
Category: International Large Blend, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-27, 100% of its stocks are outside the US; weighted by holding, they sit where 45% of their market's value is in larger companies (large: up to 78%); growth index funds hold 44% of their value against 47% for companies of the same sizes in the whole market (blend: within 10 points). How categories are set.
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On the close of Friday, October 23, 2026, QEFA neither created nor redeemed shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net inflow of $0.
From QEFA's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is QEFA split by sector and country?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Financials | 18.6% | |
| Industrials | 14.7% | |
| Health care | 12.9% | |
| Consumer staples | 9.6% | |
| Technology | 8.6% | |
| Consumer discretionary | 8.4% | |
| Energy | 5.6% | |
| Materials | 4.6% | |
| Communication services | 4.5% | |
| Utilities | 3.3% | |
| Real estate | 1.4% | |
| No sector found | 6.9% |
| Country | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 23.8% | |
| United Kingdom | 14.5% | |
| Switzerland | 12.1% | |
| France | 7.8% | |
| Germany | 7.2% | |
| Australia | 5.7% | |
| Netherlands | 4.1% | |
| Spain | 3.4% | |
| Italy | 3.3% | |
| Hong Kong | 2.8% | |
| Other countries | 14.4% |
From its SPDR file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did QEFA hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
In QEFA's SEC filings, its largest position went from Nestle SA (NESN.CH) at 2.61% on 2019-09-30 to ASML Holding NV (ASML.NL) at 2.52% on 2026-06-30, across 28 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-30 | 625 | NESN.CH 2.61% | 14.1% |
| 2019-12-31 | 638 | ROP.CH 2.52% | 14.8% |
| 2020-12-31 | 699 | ROP.CH 2.37% | 15.4% |
| 2021-12-31 | 685 | NESN.CH 2.66% | 15.9% |
| 2022-12-31 | 699 | NOVOB.DK 2.60% | 17.4% |
| 2023-12-31 | 682 | NESN.CH 2.44% | 16.9% |
| 2024-12-31 | 651 | ASML.NL 1.92% | 15.3% |
| 2025-12-31 | 658 | NOVN.CH 2.17% | 15.4% |
| 2026-06-30 | 641 | ASML.NL 2.52% | 15.4% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 28 reports QEFA filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2019-09-30 to 2026-06-30, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/qefa/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does QEFA duplicate?
The ETF nearest to QEFA is EFA: the two hold 71.7% of their weight in common, in the 610 companies both own, and 99.3% of QEFA itself is also held there. Owning QEFA alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means holding mostly the same companies twice. QEFA is close to contained in EFA.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of QEFA held there | Of that ETF in QEFA | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EFA | 71.7% | 99.3% | 98.1% | 610 | |
| HEFA | 71.4% | 99.3% | 98.1% | 610 | |
| EFAX | 68.1% | 90.6% | 98.6% | 589 | |
| IEFA | 65.1% | 99.3% | 84.1% | 611 | |
| IMFL | 60.4% | 94.5% | 74.5% | 564 | |
| IDEV | 59.3% | 99.3% | 73.6% | 611 | |
| EFAA | 59.1% | 96.4% | 96.2% | 597 | |
| ESGD | 58.8% | 71.3% | 98.9% | 323 | |
| EFAV | 58.3% | 74.0% | 99.8% | 264 | |
| SCHF | 57.1% | 98.3% | 71.9% | 598 | |
| SPDW | 56.3% | 99.7% | 68.9% | 616 | |
| IEV | 54.3% | 60.3% | 96.2% | 310 |
SCHF's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-08-31, filed 2026-10-27. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check QEFA against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to QEFA?
SOXX shares 0% of weight with QEFA and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.46 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with QEFA, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOXX | iShares Semiconductor ETF | 0.0% | 0.46 | 0 |
| USRT | iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.54 | 0 |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF | 0.0% | 0.54 | 0 |
| VLUE | iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.60 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| USMV | iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.64 | 0 |
| SUSA | iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF | 0.0% | 0.64 | 0 |
| IJH | iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.65 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.30% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 2.79% |
| Total return, 1 year | 16.4% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 60.6% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 47.4% |
| Volatility, annualised | 12.6% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -9.6% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.57 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 15.2% |
| Largest single position | 2.0% |
| Assets under management | $1.0B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from QEFA's SEC filing of 2026-01-23); the weight in the ten largest positions and the largest single position are from the issuer file of 2026-10-27; 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 | 0.63loosely linked | 110 |
| QQQ | 0.51loosely linked | 123 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 11.6% |
| 2025 | 29.3% |
| 2024 | 2.3% |
| 2023 | 17.4% |
| 2022 | -14.0% |
One year
Where to go next
- SCHF, Schwab International Equity ETF
- SPDW, State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
- VEA, Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF
- VEU, Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what QEFA carries once you look through it
- Compare QEFA against any other ETF in the builder
Holdings from the most recent file State Street SPDR has published, dated 2026-10-27. Prices through 2026-10-28. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.
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