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VO vs IEFA overlap

VO and IEFA hold no company in common. Still, 84% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Industrials; they part most on Financials: 24% of IEFA against 15% of VO.

Holdings as of September 30, 2026 · source: Vanguard (VO), iShares (IEFA) · How we measured all 1,035 pairs

overlapfull holdings, by weight
0.0%of each fund is money the other holds at the same weight, across 0 shared companies.
VO
100%
IEFA
100%
  • same money
  • same companies, extra weight
  • only in this fund
Overlap = the sum, over companies both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights. Cash and derivatives excluded.
01Different

What only one of them gives you

only in VO271 names
NENETCloudflare Inc1.11%
Valero Energy Corp logoVLOValero Energy Corp1.10%
Marathon Petroleum Corp logoMPCMarathon Petroleum Corp1.10%
Phillips 66 logoPSXPhillips 661.01%
Quanta Services Inc logoPWRQuanta Services Inc0.95%
VRVRTVertiv Holdings Co0.92%
DDDDOGDatadog Inc0.91%
HWHWMHowmet Aerospace Inc0.89%
only in IEFA2,619 names
ASASMLASML HOLDING2.65%
HSHSBAHSBC HOLDINGS PLC1.29%
ROCHE PS PAR AG logoROPROCHE PS PAR AG1.25%
SHSHELSHELL1.20%
NONOVNNOVARTIS AG1.08%
AZAZNASTRAZENECA PLC0.98%
NENESNNESTLE SA0.97%
838306MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP0.94%
02Sectors

No stock in common, 84% in the same sectors

sectorsVO vs IEFA, share of each fund
Financials14.97%23.67%
Industrials18.71%19.30%
Information Technology15.56%10.93%
Health Care9.25%9.53%
Consumer Discretionary8.77%8.57%
Energy8.61%4.13%
Consumer Staples4.81%6.51%
Utilities7.69%3.52%
Materials4.33%6.71%
Real Estate4.78%2.55%
Communication Services2.22%3.83%
03Questions

VO and IEFA: what people ask

questions4 answered

How much do VO and IEFA overlap?

None by holdings, as of September 30, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 84% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Industrials.

Which stocks do VO and IEFA both hold?

None. VO and IEFA have no holding in common.

Is it redundant to hold both VO and IEFA?

No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 2,890 different holdings that behave like 461 equally weighted stocks, against 206 for VO alone and 261 for IEFA 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 Vanguard and iShares 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.

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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.