ETF comparison
IJH vs USMV
US Mid Cap vs Low Volatility Factor.
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJH and USMV would leave roughly 0.6% 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
IJH is 10 bps cheaper than USMV. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for USMV.
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 USMV.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJH | In USMV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC | 0.47% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 2 | UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORP | 0.63% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in IJH
398 total- TWILIO INC 0.86%
- CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORP 0.84%
- MKS INC 0.83%
- CURTISS-WRIGHT CORP 0.77%
- NVENT ELECTRIC PLC 0.75%
- ENTEGRIS INC 0.75%
- ATI INC 0.74%
- ILLUMINA INC 0.73%
- TECHNIPFMC PLC 0.73%
- STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE INC 0.71%
Only in USMV
163 total- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 1.62%
- AMPHENOL CORPORATION 1.58%
- WELLTOWER INC. 1.57%
- Chubb Limited 1.54%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 1.54%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.47%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 1.46%
- VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED 1.46%
- DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION 1.45%
- THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 1.44%
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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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