ETF comparison
AVUS vs IWM
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
1,007 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and IWM would leave roughly 6.3% 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
AVUS is 4 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for IWM.
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 AVUS vs IWM.
Top shared holdings
1,007 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In IWM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat Inc | 0.08% | 0.35% | 0.08% |
| 2 | Argan Inc | 0.06% | 0.34% | 0.06% |
| 3 | SM Energy Co | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.05% | 0.19% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Kodiak Gas Services Inc | 0.04% | 0.23% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Commercial Metals Co | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 7 | StoneX Group Inc | 0.04% | 0.27% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Lantheus Holdings Inc | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Archrock Inc | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 10 | InterDigital Inc | 0.04% | 0.23% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Matson Inc | 0.04% | 0.18% | 0.04% |
| 12 | MYR Group Inc | 0.04% | 0.24% | 0.04% |
Only in AVUS
866 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.48%
- Apple Inc 5.36%
- Microsoft Corp 3.84%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.67%
- Alphabet Inc 2.41%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.40%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.21%
- Alphabet Inc 1.94%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.20%
- Broadcom Inc 1.18%
Only in IWM
1,007 total- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- CareTrust REIT, Inc. 0.28%
- Compass, Inc. 0.27%
- Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. 0.25%
- Glaukos Corp. 0.25%
- Core Scientific, Inc. 0.25%
- TG Therapeutics, Inc. 0.25%
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- AVUS vs DFAC · U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 76.4%
- AVUS vs SPTM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF 74.7%
- AVUS vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 74.4%
- AVUS vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 74.4%
More comparisons with IWM
- IWM vs DFUV · Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF 6.3%
- IWM vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 6.0%
- IWM vs SCHM · Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF 5.0%
- IWM vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 4.4%
- IWM vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 4.3%
- IWM vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 4.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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