ETF comparison
IWM vs SCHA
Both US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
1,385 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and SCHA would leave roughly 56.1% 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
SCHA is 16 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for IWM.
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 IWM vs SCHA.
Top shared holdings
1,385 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWM | In SCHA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hut 8 Corp. | 0.37% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 2 | D-Wave Quantum, Inc. | 0.27% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 3 | Viasat, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | Moog, Inc. | 0.38% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | Cytokinetics, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | UMB Financial Corp. | 0.33% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 8 | Argan, Inc. | 0.34% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | CareTrust REIT, Inc. | 0.28% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 10 | Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. | 0.26% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Riot Platforms, Inc. | 0.30% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | FirstCash Holdings, Inc. | 0.28% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in IWM
629 total- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- SSR Mining, Inc. 0.20%
- Joby Aviation, Inc. 0.19%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.18%
- Golar LNG Ltd. 0.15%
- Brookfield Infrastructure Corp. 0.15%
- AXT, Inc. 0.14%
- Constellium SE 0.13%
- Marex Group plc 0.12%
- Energy Fuels, Inc. 0.11%
Only in SCHA
320 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 5.28%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 1.29%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.65%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.56%
- ATI Inc 0.50%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.50%
- Nextpower Inc 0.49%
- MKS Inc 0.46%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.42%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.38%
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- SCHA vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 40.0%
- SCHA vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 36.8%
- SCHA vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 34.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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