ETF comparison
IWO vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
76 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWO and VYM would leave roughly 1.0% 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
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Cost difference
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
76 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWO | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMB Financial Corp. | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Old National Bancorp | 0.06% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | FirstCash Holdings, Inc. | 0.53% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Valley National Bancorp | 0.11% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Glacier Bancorp, Inc. | 0.09% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | GATX Corp. | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Archrock, Inc. | 0.43% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp. | 0.28% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Noble Corp. plc | 0.27% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Piper Sandler Cos. | 0.31% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Sensient Technologies Corp. | 0.32% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Installed Building Products, Inc. | 0.33% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in IWO
1,057 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%
- D-Wave Quantum, Inc. 0.53%
- StoneX Group, Inc. 0.52%
- Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. 0.51%
Only in VYM
528 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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