ETF comparison
IJK vs SCHM
Both US Mid Cap.
iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF · Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
188 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJK and SCHM would leave roughly 38.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHM is 14 bps cheaper than IJK. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for IJK.
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 IJK vs SCHM.
Top shared holdings
188 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJK | In SCHM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TechnipFMC plc | 1.71% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 2 | Curtiss-Wright Corp. | 1.54% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 3 | Casey's General Stores, Inc. | 1.65% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 4 | XPO, Inc. | 1.40% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 5 | Royal Gold, Inc. | 1.26% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 6 | Flex Ltd. | 1.48% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 7 | Woodward, Inc. | 1.31% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 8 | ATI, Inc. | 1.21% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 9 | United Therapeutics Corp. | 1.57% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 10 | Tenet Healthcare Corp. | 1.02% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 11 | Entegris, Inc. | 0.44% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | Carpenter Technology Corp. | 1.20% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in IJK
56 total- BlackRock Funds III 4.65%
- Everpure, Inc. 1.14%
- Hecla Mining Co. 0.77%
- Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. 0.75%
- Illumina, Inc. 0.62%
- TTM Technologies, Inc. 0.62%
- Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.54%
- Moog, Inc. 0.51%
- SiTime Corp. 0.47%
- FirstCash Holdings, Inc. 0.45%
Only in SCHM
309 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 1.86%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.98%
- Ciena Corp 0.97%
- Coherent Corp 0.81%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.67%
- Tapestry Inc 0.63%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.62%
- Texas Pacific Land Corp 0.60%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.54%
- Steel Dynamics Inc 0.53%
Open IJK or SCHM at a brokerage
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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.