ETF comparison
IWO vs VIG
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
38 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWO and VIG would leave roughly 0.5% 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
VIG is 20 bps cheaper than IWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for IWO.
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 IWO vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
38 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWO | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMB Financial Corp. | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Enpro, Inc. | 0.46% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | GATX Corp. | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Balchem Corp. | 0.31% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | First Financial Bankshares, Inc. | 0.13% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | ServisFirst Bancshares, Inc. | 0.26% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Materion Corp. | 0.37% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | International Bancshares Corp. | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Franklin Electric Co., Inc. | 0.25% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Mueller Water Products, Inc. | 0.24% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Badger Meter, Inc. | 0.26% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Kadant, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in IWO
1,095 total- Moog, Inc. 0.73%
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 0.68%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.66%
- Argan, Inc. 0.66%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.59%
- Krystal Biotech, Inc. 0.58%
- ESCO Technologies, Inc. 0.56%
- FirstCash Holdings, Inc. 0.53%
- D-Wave Quantum, Inc. 0.53%
- StoneX Group, Inc. 0.52%
Only in VIG
295 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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