ETF comparison
IJR vs SCHA
Both US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
585 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJR and SCHA would leave roughly 33.9% 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
SCHA is 3 bps cheaper than IJR. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IJR.
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 SCHA.
Top shared holdings
585 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJR | In SCHA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIASAT INC | 0.66% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 2 | LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.32% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 3 | FORMFACTOR INC | 0.67% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 4 | ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC | 0.59% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 5 | ARGAN INC | 0.60% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | ENPHASE ENERGY INC | 0.35% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES INC | 0.60% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | POWELL INDUSTRIES INC | 0.44% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 9 | KRYSTAL BIOTECH INC | 0.53% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | STONEX GROUP INC | 0.46% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 11 | EVERUS CONSTRUCTION GROUP INC | 0.46% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.49% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in IJR
18 total- MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC 0.64%
- MATCH GROUP INC 0.48%
- EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY 0.41%
- CARMAX INC 0.41%
- QORVO INC 0.40%
- ETSY INC 0.39%
- POOL CORP 0.37%
- LKQ CORP 0.36%
- CONAGRA BRANDS INC 0.34%
- MOHAWK INDUSTRIES INC 0.34%
Only in SCHA
1,120 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 5.28%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 1.29%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.65%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.56%
- ATI Inc 0.50%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.50%
- Nextpower Inc 0.49%
- MKS Inc 0.46%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.42%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.38%
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- IJR vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 31.0%
- IJR vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 27.9%
- IJR vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 20.8%
- IJR vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 19.3%
- IJR vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 19.0%
More comparisons with SCHA
- SCHA vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 32.4%
- SCHA vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 32.4%
- SCHA vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 32.3%
- SCHA vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 31.2%
- SCHA vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 26.2%
- SCHA vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 23.3%
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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