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
32 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and XLG would leave roughly 61.6% 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
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
32 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.83% | 12.06% | 12.06% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.72% | 11.26% | 6.72% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC. | 6.17% | 5.18% | 5.18% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 5.21% | 4.57% | 4.57% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.98% | 4.18% | 4.18% |
| 6 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.11% | 8.56% | 4.11% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.00% | 3.03% | 3.00% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 3.86% | 2.30% | 2.30% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 2.84% | 2.25% | 2.25% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 3.64% | 2.17% | 2.17% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 2.80% | 1.93% | 1.93% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 1.68% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
Only in IWF
336 total- PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. 0.81%
- MARVELL TECHNOLOGY, INC. 0.77%
- AMPHENOL CORPORATION 0.64%
- WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION 0.64%
- CORNING INCORPORATED 0.60%
- CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS, INC. 0.57%
- ARISTA NETWORKS, INC. 0.53%
- INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. 0.42%
- AMGEN INC. 0.41%
- BOOKING HOLDINGS INC. 0.41%
Only in XLG
20 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.34%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.60%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.53%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.14%
- Intel Corp. 1.06%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc. 0.93%
- Chevron Corp. 0.91%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 0.83%
- Merck & Co., Inc. 0.80%
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- XLG vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 54.8%
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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