ETF comparison
IUSG vs IWF
Both US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
177 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IUSG and IWF would leave roughly 71.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IUSG is 14 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for IWF.
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 IUSG vs IWF.
Top shared holdings
177 shared in total| # | Holding | In IUSG | In IWF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 13.84% | 12.92% | 12.92% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.97% | 8.82% | 8.82% |
| 3 | Apple Inc. | 6.08% | 11.64% | 6.08% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 4.79% | 4.79% | 4.79% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 5.47% | 3.54% | 3.54% |
| 6 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 3.52% | 4.66% | 3.52% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.09% | 3.46% | 3.46% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc. | 4.38% | 2.87% | 2.87% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 2.38% | 2.66% | 2.38% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 2.12% | 3.55% | 2.12% |
| 11 | Netflix, Inc. | 1.33% | 1.47% | 1.33% |
| 12 | Palantir Technologies Inc | 1.09% | 1.15% | 1.09% |
Only in IUSG
208 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.87%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.76%
- Micron Technology Inc. 1.24%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.13%
- RTX Corp. 0.85%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.53%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.47%
- Welltower Inc. 0.45%
- Morgan Stanley 0.39%
- Newmont Corporation 0.39%
Only in IWF
210 total- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION 1.60%
- THE HOME DEPOT, INC. 0.90%
- VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED 0.41%
- ADOBE INC. 0.36%
- MCKESSON CORPORATION 0.36%
- BLACKSTONE INC. 0.31%
- WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. 0.31%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.29%
- AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC. 0.27%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.27%
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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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