ETF comparison
IWF vs MGC
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
83 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and MGC would leave roughly 59.2% 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
MGC is 13 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for IWF.
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 IWF vs MGC.
Top shared holdings
83 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In MGC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.83% | 9.10% | 9.10% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.72% | 8.55% | 6.72% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC. | 6.17% | 4.13% | 4.13% |
| 4 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.11% | 6.24% | 4.11% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 5.21% | 3.95% | 3.95% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.98% | 3.25% | 3.25% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.00% | 2.58% | 2.58% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 3.64% | 2.29% | 2.29% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 3.86% | 2.04% | 2.04% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 2.84% | 1.75% | 1.75% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 2.80% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 1.68% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
Only in IWF
285 total- WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION 0.64%
- VERTIV HOLDINGS CO 0.38%
- QUANTA SERVICES, INC. 0.32%
- HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. 0.32%
- DATADOG, INC. 0.25%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. 0.24%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 0.24%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.23%
- TERADYNE, INC. 0.22%
- Astera Labs, Inc 0.22%
Only in MGC
90 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.53%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.41%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.13%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.01%
- Intel Corp 0.86%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.80%
- Chevron Corp 0.65%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.64%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.62%
- Merck & Co Inc 0.55%
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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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