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ETF comparison

IJR vs MOAT

US Small Cap vs Quality Factor.

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF · VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.2 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJR and MOAT would leave roughly 0.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IJR unmatched 97.4% Shared 0.2% MOAT unmatched 99.8%

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 IJR only
602 positions
Shared
1 positions
In MOAT only
54 positions

Side by side

IJR

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF

iShares · US Small Cap

95 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$102.56B
TTM yield
1.24%
Top-10 conc.
10.8%
MOAT

VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF

VanEck · Quality Factor

75 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.46%
Net assets
$11.25B
TTM yield
1.25%
Top-10 conc.
25.3%

Sub-score comparison

94
Cost
54
88
Tax efficiency
85
100
Liquidity
100
99
Concentration
78
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Tracking quality
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IJR sub-score MOAT

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

Cost difference

IJR is 40 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for MOAT.

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 IJR vs MOAT.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In IJR In MOAT Overlap
1 MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC 0.22% 0.74% 0.22%

Only in IJR

602 total
  • FORMFACTOR INC 0.67%
  • VIASAT INC 0.66%
  • MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC 0.64%
  • ARGAN INC 0.60%
  • BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES INC 0.60%
  • ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC 0.59%
  • MAXLINEAR INC 0.58%
  • KRYSTAL BIOTECH INC 0.53%
  • ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.49%
  • MATCH GROUP INC 0.48%

Only in MOAT

54 total
  • Masco Corp 2.96%
  • Kenvue Inc 2.59%
  • Airbnb Inc 2.56%
  • Palo Alto Networks Inc 2.51%
  • Brown-Forman Corp 2.49%
  • NVIDIA Corp 2.45%
  • Charles Schwab Corp/The 2.45%
  • Datadog Inc 2.44%
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.43%
  • Broadcom Inc 2.43%

Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open IJR or MOAT at a brokerage

Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.

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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.