ETF comparison
IWF vs SCHM
US Large Cap Growth vs US Mid Cap.
Holdings overlap
125 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and SCHM would leave roughly 4.4% 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
SCHM is 15 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 SCHM.
Top shared holdings
125 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In SCHM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SANDISK CORPORATION | 0.98% | 4.64% | 0.98% |
| 2 | BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION | 0.24% | 1.36% | 0.24% |
| 3 | CIENA CORPORATION | 0.20% | 1.52% | 0.20% |
| 4 | LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC. | 0.18% | 1.13% | 0.18% |
| 5 | REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC. | 0.11% | 0.57% | 0.11% |
| 6 | CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 0.09% | 0.43% | 0.09% |
| 7 | TAPESTRY, INC. | 0.09% | 0.55% | 0.09% |
| 8 | FTAI Aviation Ltd. | 0.08% | 0.50% | 0.08% |
| 9 | ATI INC | 0.08% | 0.44% | 0.08% |
| 10 | CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC. | 0.08% | 0.53% | 0.08% |
| 11 | MASTEC, INC. | 0.08% | 0.43% | 0.08% |
| 12 | TEXAS PACIFIC LAND CORPORATION | 0.08% | 0.42% | 0.08% |
Only in IWF
243 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 13.83%
- APPLE INC. 6.72%
- ALPHABET INC. 6.17%
- BROADCOM INC. 5.21%
- ALPHABET INC. 4.98%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 4.11%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 3.86%
- TESLA, INC. 3.64%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.00%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 2.84%
Only in SCHM
371 total- Flex Ltd 1.03%
- IonQ Inc 0.47%
- United Therapeutics Corp 0.44%
- Nextpower Inc 0.43%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.42%
- NiSource Inc 0.41%
- F5 Inc 0.40%
- Akamai Technologies Inc 0.40%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.39%
- Okta Inc 0.39%
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More comparisons with SCHM
- SCHM vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 4.4%
- SCHM vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 3.0%
- SCHM vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 2.7%
- SCHM vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 2.7%
- SCHM vs IVV · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF 2.7%
- SCHM vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 2.4%
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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