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IWM vs VYMI

US Small Cap vs Dividend.

iShares Russell 2000 ETF · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

IWM unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% VYMI unmatched 99.2%

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 VYMI only
1,564 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%
VYMI

Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Dividend

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$22.28B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
3.67%
Top-10 conc.
13.8%

Sub-score comparison

81
Cost
93
89
Tax efficiency
73
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
95
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Tracking quality
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IWM sub-score VYMI

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

Cost difference

VYMI is 12 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 VYMI.

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 VYMI

1,564 total
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
  • Roche Holding AG 1.60%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 1.53%
  • Novartis AG 1.52%
  • Nestle SA 1.35%
  • Shell PLC 1.34%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.27%
  • BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
  • Banco Santander SA 1.08%

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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.