ETF comparison
IJH vs VBK
US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
159 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJH and VBK would leave roughly 41.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.050% vs 0.050%).
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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
159 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJH | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TechnipFMC PLC | 0.87% | 0.92% | 0.87% |
| 2 | Casey'S General Stores Inc. | 0.84% | 0.90% | 0.84% |
| 3 | Curtiss-Wright Corp. | 0.78% | 0.84% | 0.78% |
| 4 | Woodward Inc. | 0.67% | 0.71% | 0.67% |
| 5 | Royal Gold, Inc. | 0.64% | 0.72% | 0.64% |
| 6 | ATI Inc | 0.62% | 0.66% | 0.62% |
| 7 | Mastec, Inc. | 0.62% | 0.68% | 0.62% |
| 8 | Carpenter Technology Corporation | 0.61% | 0.62% | 0.61% |
| 9 | NVent Electric PLC | 0.60% | 0.64% | 0.60% |
| 10 | Twilio Inc | 0.60% | 0.64% | 0.60% |
| 11 | BWX Technologies Inc. | 0.58% | 0.62% | 0.58% |
| 12 | Fabrinet | 0.58% | 0.62% | 0.58% |
Only in IJH
240 total- United Therapeutics Corporation 0.80%
- FLEX LTD 0.75%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.63%
- Illumina Inc 0.59%
- Alcoa Corporation 0.54%
- Tenet Healthcare Corporation 0.52%
- Ovintiv Inc 0.51%
- ITT Inc 0.51%
- Reliance Inc 0.50%
- API Group Corp 0.49%
Only in VBK
390 total- Ciena Corp 0.92%
- Natera Inc 0.88%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.84%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.84%
- Comfort Systems USA Inc 0.81%
- Coherent Corp 0.74%
- AST SpaceMobile Inc 0.72%
- SoFi Technologies Inc 0.68%
- EQT Corp 0.66%
- Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One 0.63%
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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.