ETF comparison
IWB vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWB and XLG would leave roughly 57.2% 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
IWB is 5 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWB | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.72% | 12.06% | 6.72% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.03% | 11.26% | 6.03% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 3.99% | 8.56% | 3.99% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.33% | 6.60% | 3.33% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.00% | 5.18% | 3.00% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.53% | 4.57% | 2.53% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.42% | 4.18% | 2.42% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.87% | 2.30% | 1.87% |
| 9 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.78% | 3.03% | 1.78% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.77% | 2.17% | 1.77% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.38% | 2.25% | 1.38% |
| 12 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.36% | 1.93% | 1.36% |
Only in IWB
974 total- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.82%
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. 0.40%
- MARVELL TECHNOLOGY, INC. 0.37%
- RTX CORPORATION 0.37%
- CITIGROUP INC. 0.34%
- AMPHENOL CORPORATION 0.31%
- WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION 0.31%
- CORNING INCORPORATED 0.29%
- AMGEN INC. 0.28%
- ANALOG DEVICES, INC. 0.28%
Only in XLG
2 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.60%
- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.03%
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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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