ETF comparison
ACWV vs ITOT
Low Volatility Factor vs US Total Market.
iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
144 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWV and ITOT would leave roughly 19.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ITOT is 17 bps cheaper than ACWV. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for ACWV.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ACWV vs ITOT.
Top shared holdings
144 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWV | In ITOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 1.13% | 3.79% | 1.13% |
| 2 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.03% | 1.25% | 1.03% |
| 3 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 1.41% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 4 | EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION | 0.89% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 5 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 2.13% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 6 | WALMART INC. | 0.61% | 0.68% | 0.61% |
| 7 | VISA INC. | 0.55% | 0.78% | 0.55% |
| 8 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.78% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 9 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | 0.44% | 0.57% | 0.44% |
| 10 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 0.50% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 11 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.75% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 12 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.41% | 0.61% | 0.41% |
Only in ACWV
241 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 1.22%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 1.08%
- KDDI CORPORATION 1.01%
- Novartis AG 0.87%
- ORANGE SA 0.83%
- SoftBank Corp. 0.82%
- BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 0.73%
- NTT, Inc. 0.60%
- KYOCERA CORPORATION 0.59%
- Constellation Software Inc. 0.57%
Only in ITOT
2,354 total- Amazon.com, Inc. 3.19%
- Alphabet, Inc. 2.86%
- Broadcom, Inc. 2.45%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.78%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.69%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.62%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.30%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.20%
- Intel Corp. 0.90%
- Applied Materials, Inc. 0.78%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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