ETF comparison
IJS vs SPSM
Both US Small Cap.
iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
461 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJS and SPSM would leave roughly 63.6% 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
SPSM is 15 bps cheaper than IJS. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for IJS.
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 IJS vs SPSM.
Top shared holdings
461 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJS | In SPSM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC | 1.28% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 2 | ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC | 0.59% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 3 | MAXLINEAR INC | 0.66% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 4 | MATCH GROUP INC | 0.95% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 5 | PLEXUS CORP | 0.48% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 6 | RALLIANT CORP | 0.42% | 0.45% | 0.42% |
| 7 | EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY | 0.82% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 8 | CARMAX INC | 0.81% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 9 | LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.43% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 10 | JACKSON FINANCIAL INC | 0.60% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 11 | KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC | 0.75% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 12 | POOL CORP | 0.74% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
Only in IJS
0 totalEvery IJS position is also held by SPSM.
Only in SPSM
143 total- FormFactor Inc 0.68%
- Viasat Inc 0.66%
- Argan Inc 0.60%
- BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.60%
- Krystal Biotech Inc 0.53%
- ESCO Technologies Inc 0.49%
- Alkermes PLC 0.47%
- Everus Construction Group Inc 0.46%
- StoneX Group Inc 0.45%
- Corcept Therapeutics Inc 0.45%
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More comparisons with IJS
- IJS vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 62.6%
- IJS vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 62.0%
- IJS vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 40.1%
- IJS vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 35.1%
- IJS vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 33.6%
- IJS vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 31.8%
More comparisons with SPSM
- SPSM vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 61.3%
- SPSM vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 61.1%
- SPSM vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 60.5%
- SPSM vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 52.4%
- SPSM vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 47.1%
- SPSM vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 43.5%
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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