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EFA vs VNQ overlap
EFA and VNQ hold no company in common, and their sectors barely meet (1.5% in common): EFA is 26% Financials, VNQ 84% Real Estate.
Holdings as of September 30, 2026 · source: iShares (EFA), Vanguard (VNQ) · How we measured all 1,431 pairs
- same money
- same companies, extra weight
- only in this fund
Hold EFA and VNQ with other funds or stocks? The free portfolio optimizer opens EFA and VNQ beside the rest of what you own: the companies you hold twice, what the funds cost a year, and where the next deposit should go. No account.
What only one of them gives you
VRTPXVanguard Real Estate II Index Fund14.51%
WELLWelltower Inc9.12%
PLDPrologis Inc6.86%
EQIXEquinix Inc5.65%No stock in common, 1.5% in the same sectors
EFA and VNQ: what people ask
How much do EFA and VNQ overlap?
None by holdings, as of September 30, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 1.5% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Real Estate.
Which stocks do EFA and VNQ both hold?
None. EFA and VNQ have no holding in common.
Is it redundant to hold both EFA and VNQ?
No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 795 different holdings that behave like 74 equally weighted stocks, against 194 for EFA alone and 21 for VNQ alone. Whether that mix suits you depends on what you want to own; this is a description, not advice.
How is ETF overlap calculated here?
For every company held by both funds we take the smaller of its two weights and add them up. The weights come from the full holdings files iShares and Vanguard publish, not a top-10 sample, and companies are matched by their ISIN so share classes stay apart. Sector overlap applies the same rule to the issuers' sector labels; "behaves like N equally weighted stocks" is one over the sum of the squared weights.
Weights come from each issuer's published holdings file and are matched company by company on their ISIN. Cash, futures and currency positions are left out. This page describes what the funds hold; it is not investment advice.