ETF comparison
IWF vs VBR
US Large Cap Growth vs US Small Cap.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and VBR would leave roughly 0.9% 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
VBR 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 VBR.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In VBR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JABIL INC. | 0.12% | 0.87% | 0.12% |
| 2 | EMCOR GROUP, INC. | 0.11% | 0.40% | 0.11% |
| 3 | NRG ENERGY, INC. | 0.09% | 0.66% | 0.09% |
| 4 | TAPESTRY, INC. | 0.09% | 0.63% | 0.09% |
| 5 | C.H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE, INC. | 0.06% | 0.45% | 0.06% |
| 6 | ECHOSTAR CORPORATION | 0.04% | 0.15% | 0.04% |
| 7 | AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC. | 0.03% | 0.26% | 0.03% |
| 8 | VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.03% |
| 9 | RALPH LAUREN CORPORATION | 0.03% | 0.15% | 0.03% |
| 10 | MURPHY USA INC. | 0.03% | 0.19% | 0.03% |
| 11 | GARTNER, INC. | 0.03% | 0.18% | 0.03% |
| 12 | RUBRIK, INC. | 0.02% | 0.26% | 0.02% |
Only in IWF
317 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 VBR
789 total- Atmos Energy Corp 0.62%
- Moderna Inc 0.54%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.52%
- F5 Inc 0.50%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.48%
- JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.47%
- Expand Energy Corp 0.47%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.44%
- TD SYNNEX Corp 0.41%
- Reliance Inc 0.41%
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- IWF vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 0.5%
- IWF vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 0.4%
- IWF vs FDL · First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund 0.4%
More comparisons with VBR
- VBR vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 0.8%
- VBR vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.2%
- VBR vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 0.0%
- VBR vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 59.0%
- VBR vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 49.5%
- VBR vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 43.2%
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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