ETF comparison
AVUV vs IWM
Both US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
682 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and IWM would leave roughly 28.0% 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
IWM is 6 bps cheaper than AVUV. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for AVUV.
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 AVUV vs IWM.
Top shared holdings
682 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In IWM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat Inc | 1.39% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | Argan Inc | 0.36% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 3 | Alkermes PLC | 0.51% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 4 | StoneX Group Inc | 0.77% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 5 | Terex Corp | 0.39% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 6 | Plexus Corp | 0.69% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | MYR Group Inc | 0.32% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Kodiak Gas Services Inc | 0.56% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 9 | Lantheus Holdings Inc | 0.70% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 10 | Valley National Bancorp | 0.27% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | Archrock Inc | 0.61% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Granite Construction Inc | 0.31% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in AVUV
114 total- Lear Corp 0.89%
- Avnet Inc 0.86%
- Macy's Inc 0.78%
- Five Below Inc 0.72%
- Iridium Communications Inc 0.71%
- Alaska Air Group Inc 0.64%
- Ryder System Inc 0.60%
- NOV Inc 0.58%
- Weatherford International PLC 0.57%
- Bank OZK 0.55%
Only in IWM
1,332 total- Moog, Inc. 0.38%
- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 0.35%
- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.30%
- Krystal Biotech, Inc. 0.30%
- ESCO Technologies, Inc. 0.29%
- CareTrust REIT, Inc. 0.28%
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- AVUV vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 24.8%
- AVUV vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 24.6%
- AVUV vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 22.7%
More comparisons with IWM
- IWM vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 25.8%
- IWM vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 25.5%
- IWM vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 25.5%
- IWM vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 25.0%
- IWM vs SPMD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF 11.2%
- IWM vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 11.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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