ETF comparison
IWN vs VB
Both US Small Cap.
iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
466 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWN and VB would leave roughly 14.9% 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
VB is 21 bps cheaper than IWN. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/yr more in fees for IWN.
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 IWN vs VB.
Top shared holdings
466 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWN | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hut 8 Corp. | 0.36% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Viasat, Inc. | 0.74% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | Cytokinetics, Inc. | 0.65% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | UMB Financial Corp. | 0.62% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 5 | CareTrust REIT, Inc. | 0.59% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 6 | Riot Platforms, Inc. | 0.21% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | Old National Bancorp | 0.52% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 8 | Alkermes plc | 0.11% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 9 | Vaxcyte, Inc. | 0.16% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | Terex Corp. | 0.54% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | JBT Marel Corp. | 0.50% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | Fluor Corp. | 0.34% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in IWN
956 total- Garrett Motion, Inc. 0.41%
- SSR Mining, Inc. 0.37%
- Golar LNG Ltd. 0.32%
- Brookfield Infrastructure Corp. 0.31%
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG 0.29%
- Cleanspark, Inc. 0.24%
- LivaNova plc 0.23%
- Scorpio Tankers, Inc. 0.21%
- NMI Holdings, Inc. 0.21%
- Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida 0.19%
Only in VB
843 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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More comparisons with IWN
- IWN vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 10.8%
- IWN vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 8.4%
- IWN vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 8.0%
- IWN vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 7.5%
- IWN vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 2.6%
- IWN vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 2.5%
More comparisons with VB
- VB vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 14.0%
- VB vs VONV · Vanguard Russell 1000 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 13.6%
- VB vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 13.4%
- VB vs FNDX · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company ETF 13.4%
- VB vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 13.2%
- VB vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 13.0%
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/.
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.