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IJK vs VUG

US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.

iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJK and VUG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IJK unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% VUG unmatched 99.9%

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.

In IJK only
242 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VUG only
145 positions

Side by side

IJK

iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF

iShares · US Mid Cap

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.16%
Net assets
$10.29B
TTM yield
0.60%
Top-10 conc.
14.4%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$392.07B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.40%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

84
Cost
97
89
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
94
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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IJK sub-score VUG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VUG is 13 bps cheaper than IJK. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 VUG.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In IJK In VUG Overlap
1 Burlington Stores, Inc. 0.64% 0.04% 0.04%

Only in IJK

242 total
  • Twilio, Inc. 1.66%
  • Carpenter Technology Corp. 1.62%
  • Curtiss-Wright Corp. 1.48%
  • nVent Electric plc 1.45%
  • ATI, Inc. 1.42%
  • TechnipFMC plc 1.40%
  • Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. 1.36%
  • MasTec, Inc. 1.36%
  • Woodward, Inc. 1.34%
  • MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. 1.32%

Only in VUG

145 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
  • Apple Inc 11.67%
  • Microsoft Corp 7.61%
  • Alphabet Inc 5.76%
  • Alphabet Inc 4.53%
  • Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
  • Broadcom Inc 4.28%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
  • Tesla Inc 3.27%
  • Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%

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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/.

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.