ETF comparison
IWM vs VTI
US Small Cap vs US Total Market.
iShares Russell 2000 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,869 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and VTI would leave roughly 4.2% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
1,869 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWM | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moog, Inc. | 0.38% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | Hut 8 Corp. | 0.37% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 3 | Viasat, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | Cytokinetics, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | MaxLinear, Inc. | 0.34% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Argan, Inc. | 0.34% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Krystal Biotech, Inc. | 0.30% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | UMB Financial Corp. | 0.33% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | CareTrust REIT, Inc. | 0.28% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Cipher Digital, Inc. | 0.26% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | JFrog Ltd. | 0.31% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in IWM
145 total- Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. 0.21%
- SSR Mining, Inc. 0.20%
- Garrett Motion, Inc. 0.20%
- Definium Therapeutics, Inc. 0.19%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.18%
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG 0.16%
- Golar LNG Ltd. 0.15%
- Brookfield Infrastructure Corp. 0.15%
- LivaNova plc 0.14%
- Constellium SE 0.13%
Only in VTI
1,635 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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- VTI vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 3.4%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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