ETF comparison
IJJ vs VIG
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
70 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJJ and VIG would leave roughly 2.6% 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
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Cost difference
VIG is 14 bps cheaper than IJJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for IJJ.
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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
70 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJJ | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reliance, Inc. | 1.10% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 2 | Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 3 | Carlisle Cos., Inc. | 0.48% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. | 0.27% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 5 | DT Midstream, Inc. | 0.24% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | RPM International, Inc. | 0.48% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 0.37% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | Graco, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. | 0.51% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. | 0.32% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Unum Group | 0.75% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Evercore, Inc. | 0.29% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in IJJ
229 total- US Foods Holding Corp. 1.29%
- TD SYNNEX Corp. 1.15%
- Performance Food Group Co. 1.01%
- WESCO International, Inc. 0.97%
- Entegris, Inc. 0.95%
- Annaly Capital Management, Inc. 0.94%
- Regal Rexnord Corp. 0.91%
- Toll Brothers, Inc. 0.90%
- Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. 0.87%
- Aramark 0.86%
Only in VIG
263 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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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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