etf overlap · little overlap
XLV vs IEFA overlap
XLV and IEFA hold no company in common, and their sectors barely meet (9.5% in common): XLV is 100% Health Care, IEFA 24% Financials.
Holdings as of September 24, 2026 · source: SPDR (XLV), iShares (IEFA) · How we measured all 1,035 pairs
- same money
- same companies, extra weight
- only in this fund
What only one of them gives you
No stock in common, 9.5% in the same sectors
XLV and IEFA: what people ask
How much do XLV and IEFA overlap?
None by holdings, as of September 24, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 9.5% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Health Care.
Which stocks do XLV and IEFA both hold?
None. XLV and IEFA have no holding in common.
Is it redundant to hold both XLV and IEFA?
No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 2,681 different holdings that behave like 65 equally weighted stocks, against 17 for XLV 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 SPDR 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.
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.