ETF comparison
IWO vs VTI
US Small Cap vs US Total Market.
iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,038 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWO and VTI would leave roughly 2.8% 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
VTI is 21 bps cheaper than IWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
1,038 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWO | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moog, Inc. | 0.73% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | Hut 8 Corp. | 0.38% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 3 | Cytokinetics, Inc. | 0.07% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. | 0.68% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | MaxLinear, Inc. | 0.66% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Argan, Inc. | 0.66% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 7 | Krystal Biotech, Inc. | 0.58% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | UMB Financial Corp. | 0.05% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Cipher Digital, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | JFrog Ltd. | 0.59% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. | 0.51% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | Riot Platforms, Inc. | 0.39% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in IWO
95 total- Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. 0.42%
- Definium Therapeutics, Inc. 0.36%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.35%
- Constellium SE 0.26%
- Marex Group plc 0.17%
- OneSpaWorld Holdings Ltd. 0.15%
- Establishment Labs Holdings, Inc. 0.14%
- Super Group SGHC Ltd. 0.13%
- Novagold Resources, Inc. 0.12%
- Webull Corp. 0.12%
Only in VTI
2,466 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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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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