ETF comparison
IWF vs SPMD
US Large Cap Growth vs US Mid Cap.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
98 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and SPMD would leave roughly 2.2% 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
SPMD 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 SPMD.
Top shared holdings
98 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In SPMD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 0.09% | 0.84% | 0.09% |
| 2 | ATI INC | 0.08% | 0.74% | 0.08% |
| 3 | MASTEC, INC. | 0.08% | 0.71% | 0.08% |
| 4 | MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.08% | 0.69% | 0.08% |
| 5 | WOODWARD, INC. | 0.07% | 0.70% | 0.07% |
| 6 | STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC. | 0.07% | 0.71% | 0.07% |
| 7 | XPO, INC. | 0.07% | 0.66% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Everpure, Inc | 0.06% | 0.68% | 0.06% |
| 9 | LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION | 0.06% | 0.58% | 0.06% |
| 10 | FABRINET | 0.06% | 0.55% | 0.06% |
| 11 | BURLINGTON STORES, INC. | 0.06% | 0.55% | 0.06% |
| 12 | ROKU, INC. | 0.05% | 0.50% | 0.05% |
Only in IWF
270 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 SPMD
302 total- Illumina Inc 0.73%
- United Therapeutics Corp 0.63%
- Okta Inc 0.63%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.62%
- RB Global Inc 0.60%
- TD SYNNEX Corp 0.55%
- Reliance Inc 0.53%
- Nextpower Inc 0.49%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.49%
- ITT Inc 0.49%
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- SPMD vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 0.2%
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- SPMD vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.0%
- SPMD vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
- SPMD vs IVV · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF 0.0%
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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