ETF comparison
ITOT vs SMLF
US Total Market vs Multi-Factor.
iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
833 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITOT and SMLF would leave roughly 7.3% 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
ITOT is 12 bps cheaper than SMLF. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SMLF.
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 ITOT vs SMLF.
Top shared holdings
833 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITOT | In SMLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs, Inc. | 0.09% | 0.70% | 0.09% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd. | 0.08% | 0.78% | 0.08% |
| 3 | Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. | 0.06% | 0.51% | 0.06% |
| 4 | Jabil, Inc. | 0.06% | 0.75% | 0.06% |
| 5 | Natera, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.62% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.83% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Revolution Medicines, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.47% | 0.05% |
| 8 | EMCOR Group, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.95% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Carpenter Technology Corp. | 0.04% | 0.43% | 0.04% |
| 10 | MKS, Inc. | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Tapestry, Inc. | 0.04% | 0.66% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Casey's General Stores, Inc. | 0.04% | 0.32% | 0.04% |
Only in ITOT
1,665 total- NVIDIA Corp. 6.63%
- Apple, Inc. 5.81%
- Microsoft Corp. 3.79%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 3.19%
- Alphabet, Inc. 2.86%
- Broadcom, Inc. 2.45%
- Alphabet, Inc. 2.29%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.78%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.69%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.62%
Only in SMLF
59 total- XP, Inc. 0.26%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.26%
- Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. 0.20%
- Bladex, Inc. 0.18%
- Monday.com Ltd. 0.15%
- Global-e Online Ltd. 0.12%
- Wix.com Ltd. 0.12%
- Super Group SGHC Ltd. 0.11%
- Bank of NT Butterfield & Son Ltd. (The) 0.10%
- ICON plc 0.10%
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- ITOT vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 7.0%
- ITOT vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.0%
- ITOT vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 6.8%
More comparisons with SMLF
- SMLF vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 7.3%
- SMLF vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 7.1%
- SMLF vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 6.9%
- SMLF vs OMFL · Invesco Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF 5.5%
- SMLF vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 5.3%
- SMLF vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 3.8%
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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