EFV: iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF

What does EFV hold?#

This fund holds stocks of large and mid sized companies in developed countries outside the US and Canada that look cheaper compared with their earnings or book value. Its value goes up and down with those stocks. Changes in foreign currency values also affect what it is worth in US dollars.

It tracks the MSCI EAFE Value Index (Net). It had 395 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the EFV expense ratio?#

EFV charges 0.31% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.31% fee comes to about $31 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has EFV done since 2005?#

From August 2005 to October 2026, EFV returned about 6.0% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $34,271 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

EFV returns by year#

What was EFV’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. EFV’s worst fall was −63.9%, from October 31, 2007 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on October 10, 2017.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold EFV?#

One classic strategy holds EFV at least some of the time. Each is a set of written rules you can open, test and copy.

• Trinity Portfolio (Meb Faber), by Mebane Faber, 2016

How does EFV compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for EFV:

• IVAL: Alpha Architect International Quantitative Value ETF, 0.38% a year
• SCHF: Schwab International Equity ETF, 0.03% a year
• VEA: Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF, 0.03% a year
• IEFA: iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF, 0.07% a year

See all 5 EFV alternatives, compared on the same dates as EFV.

Test EFV in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add EFV, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for EFV. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from iShares (BlackRock). We checked them on October 16, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.