ETF comparison
IWM vs VONG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell 2000 ETF · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and VONG would leave roughly 0.0% 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
VONG is 13 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 VONG.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWM | In VONG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 0.10% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 2 | Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | 0.06% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 3 | Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 4 | Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 5 | Teradata Corp. | 0.10% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 6 | DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 7 | Wendy's Co. (The) | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 8 | RH | 0.08% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 9 | nCino, Inc. | 0.05% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 10 | Globant SA | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 11 | Liberty Capital Corp. | 0.02% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 12 | Liberty Capital Corp. | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in IWM
2,002 total- Moog, Inc. 0.38%
- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- Viasat, Inc. 0.35%
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 0.35%
- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- Argan, Inc. 0.34%
- UMB Financial Corp. 0.33%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.30%
Only in VONG
375 total- NVIDIA Corp 13.07%
- Apple Inc 11.95%
- Microsoft Corp 8.96%
- Broadcom Inc 5.77%
- Amazon.com Inc 5.06%
- Alphabet Inc 3.91%
- Tesla Inc 3.48%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 3.15%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.67%
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- VONG vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 81.6%
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- VONG vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 75.2%
- VONG vs VOOG · Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 72.9%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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