ETF comparison
IAT vs VFH
Both Financials.
iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IAT and VFH would leave roughly 7.3% 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
VFH is 28 bps cheaper than IAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for IAT.
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 IAT vs VFH.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In IAT | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC. | 14.94% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 2 | U.S. BANCORP | 14.16% | 1.03% | 1.03% |
| 3 | Truist Financial Corporation | 9.38% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 4 | FIFTH THIRD BANCORP | 6.39% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 5 | M&T BANK CORPORATION | 4.55% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 6 | HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INCORPORATED | 4.50% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 7 | CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. | 4.61% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | REGIONS FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 4.18% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 9 | KEYCORP | 3.44% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES, INC. | 3.14% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 11 | EAST WEST BANCORP, INC. | 2.87% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 12 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 2.46% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in IAT
0 totalEvery IAT position is also held by VFH.
Only in VFH
380 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 9.15%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 7.85%
- Mastercard Inc 5.03%
- Bank of America Corp 4.25%
- Visa Inc 4.17%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 3.51%
- Morgan Stanley 2.97%
- Wells Fargo & Co 2.93%
- Citigroup Inc 2.56%
- American Express Co 2.10%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.