ETF comparison
IVV vs SMLF
US Large Cap vs Multi-Factor.
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IVV and SMLF would leave roughly 1.1% 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
IVV 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 IVV vs SMLF.
Top shared holdings
43 shared in total| # | Holding | In IVV | In SMLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flex Ltd. | 0.09% | 0.78% | 0.09% |
| 2 | Jabil, Inc. | 0.06% | 0.75% | 0.06% |
| 3 | Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. | 0.06% | 0.83% | 0.06% |
| 4 | EMCOR Group, Inc. | 0.06% | 0.95% | 0.06% |
| 5 | Tapestry, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.66% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Casey's General Stores, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.32% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | 0.04% | 0.61% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Moderna, Inc. | 0.04% | 0.37% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Expand Energy Corp. | 0.03% | 0.31% | 0.03% |
| 10 | DuPont de Nemours, Inc. | 0.03% | 0.33% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Generac Holdings, Inc. | 0.03% | 0.11% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Kimco Realty Corp. | 0.03% | 0.14% | 0.03% |
Only in IVV
461 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.51%
- Apple, Inc. 6.58%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.29%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 3.61%
- Alphabet, Inc. 3.25%
- Broadcom, Inc. 2.77%
- Alphabet, Inc. 2.59%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.02%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.92%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.83%
Only in SMLF
849 total- nVent Electric plc 0.80%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.70%
- Natera, Inc. 0.62%
- Mueller Industries, Inc. 0.59%
- Reliance, Inc. 0.56%
- Popular, Inc. 0.54%
- Tenet Healthcare Corp. 0.52%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. 0.51%
- Guardant Health, Inc. 0.49%
- Revolution Medicines, Inc. 0.47%
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- IVV vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 0.8%
- IVV vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 0.6%
- IVV vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 0.4%
More comparisons with SMLF
- SMLF vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 1.0%
- SMLF vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.5%
- SMLF vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 0.4%
- SMLF vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 0.1%
- SMLF vs INTF · iShares International Equity Factor ETF 0.0%
- SMLF vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 49.8%
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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