iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF
$120.58−1.77 (−1.45%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.34%
- Fund size
- $16.5B
- 1Y return
- +9.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.28%
- Holdings
- 350
- Volume · 30D
- 0.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $121.71
- 52W range
The ETF.net EFG Grade
Score 64 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.CScore 50Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 93Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 25Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 83Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 60Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 86Category rank
Our read on EFG
BMSCI splits the EAFE benchmark into a value half and a growth half. EFG is the growth half: roughly 400 companies across Europe, Australasia and the Far East, screened on earnings and sales growth, running since 2005.
The fund seeks to track an index of developed-market equities outside the United States and Canada that exhibit growth characteristics.
Why people hold it
- MSCI ranks EAFE companies on five growth measures (forward and past EPS growth, internal growth rate, sales-per-share trend) and keeps the top scorers. No manager hunches.msci.com
- 0.34% a year, under the 0.41% median for international factor ETFs, on a mandate iShares has run since 2005.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and it has tracked its stated index closely.
- Roughly 400 names spread across Europe, Australasia and the Far East, so the growth bet is a broad one.cboe.com
Worth knowing
- The growth index is about half the parent EAFE index by free-float market value. The value half sits elsewhere, so this is one style, not all of developed international.cboe.com
- Growth swings harder. Several peers in this cohort (EFAV, ACWV, QLVD) are engineered to damp volatility; EFG is not, and its risk profile is the choppier side of the group.
- Holdings trade in yen, euros, pounds and other currencies, so moves in the dollar feed straight into what a US investor sees.ishares.com
EFG Holdings
- Stocks
- 350
- 21%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Industrials27.7%
- Technology20.4%
- Health Care12.8%
- Financials11.9%
- Consumer Discr.9.2%
- Materials6.0%
- Communication5.6%
- Cons. Staples3.8%
- Utilities1.5%
- Real Estate0.6%
- Energy0.6%
Geography
- Japan24.48%
- United Kingdom11.41%
- Switzerland10.27%
- Netherlands10.25%
- Germany8.81%
- France7.56%
- Australia6.65%
- Sweden5.05%
- 15.52%
Developed 99% · Emerging 1%
EFG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | EFG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.3% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | −2.4% |
| 1 year | +9.8% |
| 3 years | +14.0% |
| 5 years | +3.6% |
| 10 years | +7.6% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | EFG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.3% | |
| 2025 | +20.7% | |
| 2024 | +1.5% | |
| 2023 | +17.6% | |
| 2022 | −23.1% | |
| 2021 | +11.0% | |
| 2020 | +17.8% |
EFG in the news
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EFG Dividends
- 2.28%
- $2.79
- $0.98 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.98 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.81 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $1.07 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.69 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.89 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.66 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.92 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.18 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.88 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.13 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.68 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.89 |
EFG Risk
- 14.3%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.59
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −35.5%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.96
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EFG Cost
- The middle half of International Factor Index funds
- Median 0.38%
6 of the 14 International Factor Index funds charge less.