ETF comparison
IWM vs VOT
US Small Cap vs US Mid Cap.
iShares Russell 2000 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and VOT 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
VOT is 14 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 VOT.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IWM
2,014 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 VOT
122 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 2.83%
- Western Digital Corp 2.42%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.38%
- Quanta Services Inc 2.38%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 2.37%
- Datadog Inc 1.90%
- Bloom Energy Corp 1.80%
- Constellation Energy Corp 1.77%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 1.75%
- Cloudflare Inc 1.72%
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More comparisons with VOT
- VOT vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 45.2%
- VOT vs IWP · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF 37.9%
- VOT vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 24.8%
- VOT vs IWS · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 16.2%
- VOT vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 11.9%
- VOT vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 11.0%
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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