ETF comparison
IJH vs SMLF
US Mid Cap vs Multi-Factor.
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
276 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJH and SMLF would leave roughly 38.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IJH is 10 bps cheaper than SMLF. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for SMLF.
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 IJH vs SMLF.
Top shared holdings
276 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJH | In SMLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FLEX LTD | 0.75% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 2 | NVent Electric PLC | 0.60% | 0.84% | 0.60% |
| 3 | United Therapeutics Corporation | 0.80% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 4 | Reliance Inc | 0.50% | 0.52% | 0.50% |
| 5 | East West Bancorp Inc | 0.46% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 6 | Curtiss-Wright Corp. | 0.78% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 7 | ITT Inc | 0.51% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 8 | Royal Gold, Inc. | 0.64% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 9 | Sterling Infrastructure Inc | 0.39% | 0.69% | 0.39% |
| 10 | Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. | 0.41% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 11 | Mueller Industries Inc. | 0.38% | 0.70% | 0.38% |
| 12 | Everpure Inc. | 0.58% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
Only in IJH
123 total- TechnipFMC PLC 0.87%
- Burlington Stores Inc. 0.63%
- Mastec, Inc. 0.62%
- Twilio Inc 0.60%
- Illumina Inc 0.59%
- RB Global Inc 0.56%
- RBC Bearings Inc 0.54%
- Annaly Capital Management, Inc. 0.47%
- W. P. Carey Inc 0.46%
- Clean Harbors, Inc. 0.45%
Only in SMLF
614 total- BlackRock Funds III 7.81%
- EMCOR Group, Inc. 1.33%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.95%
- Jabil, Inc. 0.88%
- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. 0.78%
- Tapestry, Inc. 0.66%
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. 0.50%
- Argan, Inc. 0.49%
- Natera, Inc. 0.49%
- Popular, Inc. 0.48%
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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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