ETF comparison
IVW vs VB
US Large Cap Growth vs US Small Cap.
iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IVW and VB would leave roughly 0.9% 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
VB is 15 bps cheaper than IVW. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In IVW | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FLEX LTD | 0.17% | 0.36% | 0.17% |
| 2 | EMCOR GROUP INC | 0.10% | 0.45% | 0.10% |
| 3 | TAPESTRY INC | 0.08% | 0.36% | 0.08% |
| 4 | CASEY'S GENERAL STORES INC | 0.08% | 0.36% | 0.08% |
| 5 | FIRST SOLAR INC | 0.07% | 0.15% | 0.07% |
| 6 | JABIL INC | 0.07% | 0.49% | 0.07% |
| 7 | NRG ENERGY INC | 0.06% | 0.37% | 0.06% |
| 8 | INCYTE CORP | 0.05% | 0.23% | 0.05% |
| 9 | RALPH LAUREN CORP | 0.04% | 0.17% | 0.04% |
| 10 | ECHOSTAR CORP | 0.04% | 0.17% | 0.04% |
| 11 | TKO GROUP HOLDINGS INC | 0.04% | 0.07% | 0.04% |
| 12 | INSULET CORP | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.03% |
Only in IVW
132 total- NVIDIA CORP 13.65%
- MICROSOFT CORP 7.80%
- APPLE INC 5.98%
- ALPHABET INC 5.90%
- BROADCOM INC 5.04%
- ALPHABET INC 4.70%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 3.67%
- META PLATFORMS INC 3.48%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.48%
- ELI LILLY & COMPANY 2.67%
Only in VB
1,294 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.35%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.35%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.34%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.34%
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- IVW vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
- IVW vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 0.0%
- IVW vs SPYG · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF 99.9%
- IVW vs IUSG · iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF 94.9%
More comparisons with VB
- VB vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 0.8%
- VB vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 0.7%
- VB vs VOOG · Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 0.7%
- VB vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.6%
- VB vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 0.6%
- VB vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 0.4%
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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