ETF comparison
DGRO vs IJR
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
24 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and IJR would leave roughly 0.5% 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
IJR is 2 bps cheaper than DGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for DGRO.
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 DGRO vs IJR.
Top shared holdings
24 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In IJR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LAMB WESTON HOLDINGS INC | 0.05% | 0.32% | 0.05% |
| 2 | INSTALLED BUILDING PRODUCTS INC | 0.05% | 0.28% | 0.05% |
| 3 | POOL CORP | 0.04% | 0.37% | 0.04% |
| 4 | RADIAN GROUP INC | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 5 | KONTOOR BRANDS INC | 0.03% | 0.23% | 0.03% |
| 6 | MAGNOLIA OIL & GAS CORP | 0.02% | 0.26% | 0.02% |
| 7 | MDU RESOURCES GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.24% | 0.02% |
| 8 | UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC | 0.02% | 0.23% | 0.02% |
| 9 | CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORP | 0.02% | 0.22% | 0.02% |
| 10 | VICTORY CAPITAL HOLDINGS INC | 0.02% | 0.21% | 0.02% |
| 11 | SERVISFIRST BANCSHARES INC | 0.02% | 0.24% | 0.02% |
| 12 | MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC | 0.02% | 0.22% | 0.02% |
Only in DGRO
366 total- MICROSOFT CORP 3.24%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 3.16%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 3.07%
- ABBVIE INC 2.96%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- APPLE INC 2.86%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 2.17%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
Only in IJR
579 total- FORMFACTOR INC 0.67%
- VIASAT INC 0.66%
- MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC 0.64%
- ARGAN INC 0.60%
- BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES INC 0.60%
- ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC 0.59%
- MAXLINEAR INC 0.58%
- KRYSTAL BIOTECH INC 0.53%
- ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.49%
- MATCH GROUP INC 0.48%
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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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