ETF comparison
IWF vs XLG
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
33 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and XLG would leave roughly 68.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IWF is 2 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
33 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 12.92% | 13.04% | 12.92% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 11.64% | 10.71% | 10.71% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 8.82% | 8.14% | 8.14% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 4.79% | 4.83% | 4.79% |
| 5 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 4.66% | 6.96% | 4.66% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.54% | 6.03% | 3.54% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.46% | 3.60% | 3.46% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 3.55% | 2.89% | 2.89% |
| 9 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.87% | 4.80% | 2.87% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 2.66% | 1.99% | 1.99% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 1.84% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 12 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | 1.60% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
Only in IWF
354 total- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 0.97%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.85%
- KLA CORPORATION 0.70%
- AMPHENOL CORPORATION 0.56%
- UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.52%
- AMGEN INC. 0.50%
- BOOKING HOLDINGS INC. 0.46%
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. 0.46%
- ARISTA NETWORKS, INC. 0.46%
- VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED 0.41%
Only in XLG
19 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.27%
- Exxon Mobil Corp. 1.73%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.49%
- Chevron Corp. 0.97%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.97%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 0.92%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc. 0.90%
- Merck & Co., Inc. 0.73%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.69%
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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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