ETF comparison
IWF vs VIG
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
66 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and VIG would leave roughly 30.8% 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
VIG is 14 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
66 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC. | 5.21% | 4.63% | 4.63% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.72% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.11% | 4.34% | 4.11% |
| 4 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 2.84% | 3.93% | 2.84% |
| 5 | VISA INC. | 1.68% | 2.45% | 1.68% |
| 6 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.60% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 7 | CATERPILLAR INC. | 1.43% | 1.62% | 1.43% |
| 8 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 1.23% | 2.00% | 1.23% |
| 9 | KLA CORPORATION | 1.17% | 1.03% | 1.03% |
| 10 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 0.80% | 1.08% | 0.80% |
| 11 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.77% | 1.43% | 0.77% |
| 12 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 0.74% | 0.95% | 0.74% |
Only in IWF
302 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 13.83%
- ALPHABET INC. 6.17%
- ALPHABET INC. 4.98%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 3.86%
- TESLA, INC. 3.64%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.00%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 2.80%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 1.70%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 1.14%
- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.98%
Only in VIG
267 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.98%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.63%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.45%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.39%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.24%
- Morgan Stanley 1.09%
- Linde PLC 0.96%
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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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