ETF comparison
CGDV vs IWM
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and IWM would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IWM is 14 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for CGDV.
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 CGDV vs IWM.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in CGDV
52 total- Microsoft Corp 5.81%
- NVIDIA Corp 5.66%
- Broadcom Inc 5.16%
- Alphabet Inc 3.59%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.33%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.15%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.12%
- General Electric Co 3.08%
- Cisco Systems Inc 3.02%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%
Only in IWM
2,014 total- Moog, Inc. 0.38%
- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- Viasat, Inc. 0.35%
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 0.35%
- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- Argan, Inc. 0.34%
- UMB Financial Corp. 0.33%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.30%
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More comparisons with IWM
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- IWM vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 0.0%
- IWM vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 0.0%
- IWM vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
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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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