ETF comparison
IJK vs VYM
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
55 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJK and VYM would leave roughly 1.7% 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
VYM is 12 bps cheaper than IJK. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
55 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJK | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East West Bancorp, Inc. | 0.48% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | DT Midstream, Inc. | 0.57% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 3 | RPM International, Inc. | 0.31% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Texas Roadhouse, Inc. | 0.67% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Equitable Holdings, Inc. | 0.30% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. | 0.32% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Stifel Financial Corp. | 0.31% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | Carlyle Group, Inc. (The) | 0.23% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Evercore, Inc. | 0.43% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 10 | Service Corp. International | 0.29% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | Donaldson Co., Inc. | 0.37% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | SEI Investments Co. | 0.25% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in IJK
188 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 VYM
549 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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- VYM vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 1.5%
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- VYM vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 0.8%
- VYM vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 0.7%
- VYM vs EEMV · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Min Vol Factor ETF 0.1%
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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