ETF comparison
IJH vs VBR
US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
260 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJH and VBR would leave roughly 44.0% 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 VBR.
Top shared holdings
260 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJH | In VBR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Therapeutics Corporation | 0.80% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 2 | FLEX LTD | 0.75% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 3 | US Foods Holding Corp | 0.63% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 4 | Illumina Inc | 0.59% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 5 | Alcoa Corporation | 0.54% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 6 | Ovintiv Inc | 0.51% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 7 | Tenet Healthcare Corporation | 0.52% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 8 | ITT Inc | 0.51% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 9 | Reliance Inc | 0.50% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 10 | MKS Inc. | 0.48% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 11 | W. P. Carey Inc | 0.46% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 12 | Annaly Capital Management, Inc. | 0.47% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
Only in IJH
139 total- TechnipFMC PLC 0.87%
- Casey'S General Stores Inc. 0.84%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp. 0.78%
- Woodward Inc. 0.67%
- Royal Gold, Inc. 0.64%
- Burlington Stores Inc. 0.63%
- ATI Inc 0.62%
- Mastec, Inc. 0.62%
- Carpenter Technology Corporation 0.61%
- NVent Electric PLC 0.60%
Only in VBR
578 total- NRG Energy Inc 0.75%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.74%
- Tapestry Inc 0.69%
- Jabil Inc 0.65%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.57%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc 0.53%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.50%
- CF Industries Holdings Inc 0.48%
- CH Robinson Worldwide Inc 0.48%
- Bunge Global SA 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/.
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.