ETF comparison
IWB vs VB
US Large Cap vs US Small Cap.
iShares Russell 1000 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
593 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWB and VB would leave roughly 9.2% 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
VB is 12 bps cheaper than IWB. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for IWB.
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 IWB vs VB.
Top shared holdings
593 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWB | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs, Inc | 0.11% | 0.45% | 0.11% |
| 2 | FLEX LTD. | 0.09% | 0.36% | 0.09% |
| 3 | Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd | 0.06% | 0.55% | 0.06% |
| 4 | JABIL INC. | 0.06% | 0.49% | 0.06% |
| 5 | NATERA, INC. | 0.05% | 0.45% | 0.05% |
| 6 | EMCOR GROUP, INC. | 0.05% | 0.45% | 0.05% |
| 7 | REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC. | 0.05% | 0.46% | 0.05% |
| 8 | QNITY ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.05% | 0.21% | 0.05% |
| 9 | EQT CORPORATION | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.05% |
| 10 | CENTENE CORPORATION | 0.05% | 0.19% | 0.05% |
| 11 | STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. | 0.04% | 0.19% | 0.04% |
| 12 | TWILIO INC. | 0.04% | 0.38% | 0.04% |
Only in IWB
431 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.72%
- APPLE INC. 6.03%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 3.99%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.33%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.00%
- BROADCOM INC. 2.53%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.42%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.87%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.78%
- TESLA, INC. 1.77%
Only in VB
716 total- Moog Inc 0.15%
- Hut 8 Corp 0.14%
- Viasat Inc 0.14%
- Cytokinetics Inc 0.14%
- BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.14%
- MaxLinear Inc 0.13%
- Argan Inc 0.13%
- Krystal Biotech Inc 0.13%
- UMB Financial Corp 0.12%
- CareTrust REIT Inc 0.12%
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- IWB vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.3%
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- IWB vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.4%
- IWB vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 0.0%
- IWB vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 94.8%
- IWB vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 94.8%
More comparisons with VB
- VB vs OMFL · Invesco Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF 8.9%
- VB vs SCHK · Schwab 1000 ETF 8.8%
- VB vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 8.7%
- VB vs ONEQ · Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF 8.5%
- VB vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 8.5%
- VB vs VONE · Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fund ETF Shares 8.2%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.