ETF comparison
IWM vs XLG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and XLG 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IWM is 1 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
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 XLG
52 total- NVIDIA Corp. 12.06%
- Apple Inc. 11.26%
- Microsoft Corp. 8.56%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 6.60%
- Alphabet Inc. 5.18%
- Broadcom Inc. 4.57%
- Alphabet Inc. 4.18%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 3.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.34%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
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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/.
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