ETF comparison
ITB vs VCR
Both Consumer Discretionary.
iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF · Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
27 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITB and VCR would leave roughly 9.7% 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
VCR is 28 bps cheaper than ITB. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for ITB.
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 ITB vs VCR.
Top shared holdings
27 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITB | In VCR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 4.42% | 4.57% | 4.42% |
| 2 | LOWE'S COMPANIES, INC. | 4.08% | 1.77% | 1.77% |
| 3 | D.R. HORTON, INC. | 15.70% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 4 | PULTEGROUP, INC. | 9.55% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 5 | LENNAR CORPORATION | 7.12% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | NVR, Inc. | 6.72% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | TOLL BROTHERS, INC. | 5.02% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 8 | TOPBUILD CORP. | 3.60% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 9 | MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC. | 1.14% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 10 | TAYLOR MORRISON HOME CORPORATION | 2.49% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | FLOOR & DECOR HOLDINGS, INC. | 1.18% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | MERITAGE HOMES CORPORATION | 2.08% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in ITB
18 total- THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY 4.53%
- LENNOX INTERNATIONAL INC. 3.34%
- MASCO CORPORATION 3.02%
- OWENS CORNING 2.35%
- BUILDERS FIRSTSOURCE, INC. 1.77%
- SIMPSON MANUFACTURING CO., INC. 1.58%
- EAGLE MATERIALS INC. 1.30%
- FORTUNE BRANDS INNOVATIONS, INC. 1.20%
- TREX COMPANY, INC. 0.96%
- UFP INDUSTRIES, INC. 0.94%
Only in VCR
256 total- Amazon.com Inc 24.41%
- Tesla Inc 17.72%
- McDonald's Corp 2.90%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 2.52%
- Booking Holdings Inc 1.98%
- Starbucks Corp 1.67%
- Marriott International Inc/MD 1.28%
- General Motors Co 1.17%
- MercadoLibre Inc 1.16%
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc 1.14%
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- ITB vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- ITB vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- ITB vs XHB · State Street SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF 51.7%
- ITB vs XLY · State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF 10.2%
- ITB vs FDIS · Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF 9.9%
More comparisons with VCR
- VCR vs XHB · State Street SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF 8.8%
- VCR vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCR vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- VCR vs FDIS · Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF 92.0%
- VCR vs XLY · State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF 77.2%
- VCR vs IYC · iShares US Consumer Discretionary ETF 64.5%
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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