ETF comparison
IJT vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
57 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJT and VYM would leave roughly 0.7% 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 14 bps cheaper than IJT. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
57 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJT | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Archrock, Inc. | 0.78% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. | 0.22% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 3 | Noble Corp. plc | 0.27% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | Piper Sandler Cos. | 0.29% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Radian Group, Inc. | 0.27% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Sensient Technologies Corp. | 0.57% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Installed Building Products, Inc. | 0.57% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Clear Secure, Inc. | 0.56% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Moelis & Co. | 0.25% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Virtu Financial, Inc. | 0.53% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Cheesecake Factory, Inc. (The) | 0.21% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in IJT
290 total- FormFactor, Inc. 1.36%
- Viasat, Inc. 1.33%
- 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%
Only in VYM
547 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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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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