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IWM vs VUG

US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.

iShares Russell 2000 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and VUG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IWM unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% VUG unmatched 100.0%

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.

In IWM only
2,014 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VUG only
146 positions

Side by side

IWM

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

iShares · US Small Cap

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.19%
Net assets
$78.04B
TTM yield
0.99%
Top-10 conc.
3.4%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$392.07B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.40%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

81
Cost
97
89
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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IWM sub-score VUG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VUG 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 VUG.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 VUG

146 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
  • Apple Inc 11.67%
  • Microsoft Corp 7.61%
  • Alphabet Inc 5.76%
  • Alphabet Inc 4.53%
  • Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
  • Broadcom Inc 4.28%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
  • Tesla Inc 3.27%
  • Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.