ETF comparison
IWB vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
iShares Russell 1000 ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
404 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWB and VYM would leave roughly 32.7% 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
VYM is 11 bps cheaper than IWB. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
404 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWB | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.53% | 7.35% | 2.53% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.26% | 3.82% | 1.26% |
| 3 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.88% | 2.51% | 0.88% |
| 4 | CATERPILLAR INC. | 0.70% | 1.50% | 0.70% |
| 5 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.67% | 1.86% | 0.67% |
| 6 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.64% | 1.80% | 0.64% |
| 7 | BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION | 0.54% | 1.66% | 0.54% |
| 8 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED | 0.54% | 1.52% | 0.54% |
| 9 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.51% | 1.34% | 0.51% |
| 10 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.49% | 1.37% | 0.49% |
| 11 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 0.46% | 1.31% | 0.46% |
| 12 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.46% | 1.38% | 0.46% |
Only in IWB
620 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.72%
- APPLE INC. 6.03%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 3.99%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.33%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.00%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.42%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.87%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.78%
- TESLA, INC. 1.77%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.38%
Only in VYM
200 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.24%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.24%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- UMB Financial Corp 0.04%
- Autoliv Inc 0.04%
- Old National Bancorp/IN 0.04%
- FirstCash Holdings Inc 0.03%
- Jackson Financial Inc 0.03%
- SM Energy Co 0.03%
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- IWB vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 9.2%
- IWB vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.3%
- IWB vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 4.6%
More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs VONE · Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fund ETF Shares 32.7%
- VYM vs DYNF · iShares U.S. Equity Factor Rotation Active ETF 32.6%
- VYM vs SCHK · Schwab 1000 ETF 32.5%
- VYM vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 32.3%
- VYM vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 32.2%
- VYM vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 32.1%
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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