ETF comparison
IWF vs VYMI
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and VYMI would leave roughly 0.2% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VYMI is 11 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VYMI.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In VYMI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC | 0.11% | 0.19% | 0.11% |
| 2 | BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD. | 0.05% | 0.10% | 0.05% |
| 3 | Restaurant Brands International Inc. | 0.04% | 0.13% | 0.04% |
Only in IWF
365 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 VYMI
1,561 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
- Roche Holding AG 1.60%
- Royal Bank of Canada 1.53%
- Novartis AG 1.52%
- Nestle SA 1.35%
- Shell PLC 1.34%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.27%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
- Banco Santander SA 1.08%
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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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