ETF comparison
ITOT vs USMV
US Total Market vs Low Volatility Factor.
iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
162 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITOT and USMV would leave roughly 32.0% 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 USMV. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for USMV.
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 USMV.
Top shared holdings
162 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITOT | In USMV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 3.79% | 1.62% | 1.62% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp. | 6.63% | 1.32% | 1.32% |
| 3 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.25% | 1.47% | 1.25% |
| 4 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.45% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 5 | Apple, Inc. | 5.81% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.84% | 1.54% | 0.84% |
| 7 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 1.30% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 8 | Visa, Inc. | 0.78% | 1.00% | 0.78% |
| 9 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.30% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 10 | Walmart, Inc. | 0.68% | 0.71% | 0.68% |
| 11 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 0.78% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 12 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 1.78% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
Only in ITOT
2,336 total- Alphabet, Inc. 2.86%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.62%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.20%
- Intel Corp. 0.90%
- Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.77%
- Lam Research Corp. 0.74%
- Caterpillar, Inc. 0.67%
- KLA Corp. 0.54%
- GE Aerospace 0.53%
- Bank of America Corp. 0.51%
Only in USMV
3 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 1.39%
- WASTE CONNECTIONS, INC. 1.25%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.36%
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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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