ETF comparison
IJT vs VBR
Both US Small Cap.
iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
148 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJT and VBR would leave roughly 9.5% 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
VBR is 13 bps cheaper than IJT. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for IJT.
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 IJT vs VBR.
Top shared holdings
148 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJT | In VBR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat, Inc. | 1.33% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 2 | Element Solutions, Inc. | 0.60% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | Ralliant Corp. | 0.47% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 4 | Plexus Corp. | 0.39% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 5 | Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp. | 0.82% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | Enpro, Inc. | 0.87% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 7 | Qorvo, Inc. | 0.51% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | Arcosa, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 9 | Gates Industrial Corp. plc | 0.42% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 10 | Macerich Co. (The) | 0.41% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 11 | Terreno Realty Corp. | 0.53% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Archrock, Inc. | 0.78% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in IJT
199 total- FormFactor, Inc. 1.36%
- Argan, Inc. 1.22%
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 1.21%
- Krystal Biotech, Inc. 1.07%
- ESCO Technologies, Inc. 0.99%
- Alkermes plc 0.96%
- Everus Construction Group, Inc. 0.93%
- StoneX Group, Inc. 0.91%
- Corcept Therapeutics, Inc. 0.91%
- Powell Industries, Inc. 0.89%
Only in VBR
692 total- Jabil Inc 0.87%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.66%
- Tapestry Inc 0.63%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.62%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc 0.59%
- Moderna Inc 0.54%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.52%
- F5 Inc 0.50%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.48%
- JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.47%
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More comparisons with IJT
- IJT vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 8.5%
- IJT vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 1.6%
- IJT vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 1.6%
- IJT vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 1.4%
- IJT vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 0.7%
- IJT vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 0.5%
More comparisons with VBR
- VBR vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 9.3%
- VBR vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 7.2%
- VBR vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 7.2%
- VBR vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 6.9%
- VBR vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 6.3%
- VBR vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 5.6%
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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