ETF comparison
IWP vs VUG
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
49 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWP and VUG would leave roughly 5.6% 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
VUG is 20 bps cheaper than IWP. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for IWP.
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Top shared holdings
49 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWP | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Datadog, Inc. | 2.34% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 2 | Snowflake, Inc. | 2.33% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 3 | Robinhood Markets, Inc. | 1.75% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Cloudflare, Inc. | 2.12% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 5 | Coherent Corp. | 0.40% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 6 | Teradyne, Inc. | 2.07% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Comfort Systems USA, Inc. | 1.89% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 8 | Lumentum Holdings, Inc. | 1.67% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | WW Grainger, Inc. | 1.39% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 10 | Rocket Lab Corp. | 1.49% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | Targa Resources Corp. | 1.56% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Fastenal Co. | 1.23% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
Only in IWP
217 total- Simon Property Group, Inc. 1.96%
- Vistra Corp. 1.46%
- Cencora, Inc. 1.45%
- Microchip Technology, Inc. 1.33%
- Rockwell Automation, Inc. 1.25%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. 1.23%
- Jabil, Inc. 1.10%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp. 1.05%
- Natera, Inc. 1.01%
- Anglogold Ashanti plc 1.01%
Only in VUG
97 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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- VUG vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 2.7%
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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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