ETF comparison
IJJ vs IWS
Both US Mid Cap.
iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
219 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJJ and IWS would leave roughly 18.2% 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
IJJ is 5 bps cheaper than IWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for IWS.
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 IJJ vs IWS.
Top shared holdings
219 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJJ | In IWS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MKS, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 2 | Illumina, Inc. | 0.70% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 3 | Entegris, Inc. | 0.95% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | US Foods Holding Corp. | 1.29% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | TD SYNNEX Corp. | 1.15% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Reliance, Inc. | 1.10% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | East West Bancorp, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | Nextpower, Inc. | 0.36% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 9 | Roivant Sciences Ltd. | 0.38% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | Performance Food Group Co. | 1.01% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | WESCO International, Inc. | 0.97% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | Annaly Capital Management, Inc. | 0.94% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in IJJ
80 total- American Airlines Group, Inc. 0.69%
- UMB Financial Corp. 0.59%
- Murphy USA, Inc. 0.52%
- Old National Bancorp 0.51%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. 0.49%
- Terex Corp. 0.48%
- Burlington Stores, Inc. 0.45%
- Fluor Corp. 0.42%
- Valley National Bancorp 0.40%
- Commercial Metals Co. 0.40%
Only in IWS
501 total- WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC 0.63%
- PHILLIPS 66 0.62%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC 0.62%
- KINDER MORGAN INC 0.61%
- ALLSTATE CORP (THE) 0.60%
- HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY 0.59%
- FLEX LTD 0.58%
- REALTY INCOME CORP 0.57%
- DELTA AIR LINES INC 0.56%
- CORTEVA INC 0.56%
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- IJJ vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 9.5%
- IJJ vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 5.2%
- IJJ vs IWP · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF 4.7%
- IJJ vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 4.2%
More comparisons with IWS
- IWS vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 16.2%
- IWS vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 16.2%
- IWS vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 15.3%
- IWS vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 15.3%
- IWS vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 15.0%
- IWS vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 14.8%
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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