ETF comparison
IVW vs SPY
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
136 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IVW and SPY would leave roughly 65.2% 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
SPY is 9 bps cheaper than IVW. On a $100,000 position that's about $86/yr more in fees for IVW.
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 IVW vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
136 shared in total| # | Holding | In IVW | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 13.65% | 8.50% | 8.50% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 5.98% | 7.32% | 5.98% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 7.80% | 5.77% | 5.77% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.48% | 3.71% | 3.48% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC | 5.90% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 5.04% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC | 4.70% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS INC | 3.48% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 3.67% | 1.82% | 1.82% |
| 10 | TESLA INC | 2.07% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 2.67% | 1.55% | 1.55% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC | 2.58% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
Only in IVW
11 total- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PLC 0.39%
- ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD 0.22%
- FLEX LTD 0.17%
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC 0.17%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.16%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PLC 0.11%
- CARNIVAL CORP LTD 0.10%
- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC 0.06%
- STERIS PLC 0.03%
- ALLEGION PLC 0.02%
Only in SPY
369 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- INTEL CORP 0.89%
- WALMART INC 0.70%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.61%
- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP 0.61%
- MERCK + CO. INC. 0.53%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.52%
- PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 0.51%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 0.50%
- HOME DEPOT INC 0.42%
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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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