ETF comparison
IWR vs SPYM
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap.
iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF
Holdings overlap
307 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWR and SPYM would leave roughly 13.3% 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
SPYM is 16 bps cheaper than IWR. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for IWR.
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 IWR vs SPYM.
Top shared holdings
307 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWR | In SPYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Datadog, Inc. | 0.62% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 2 | Robinhood Markets, Inc. | 0.56% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 3 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | 0.58% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 4 | Coherent Corp. | 0.50% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 5 | Teradyne, Inc. | 0.55% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 6 | Marathon Petroleum Corp. | 0.54% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 7 | Simon Property Group, Inc. | 0.52% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 8 | United Rentals, Inc. | 0.51% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 9 | Comfort Systems USA, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | Phillips 66 | 0.49% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 11 | Lumentum Holdings, Inc. | 0.44% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | Warner Bros Discovery, Inc. | 0.46% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in IWR
517 total- Snowflake, Inc. 0.61%
- Cloudflare, Inc. 0.56%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.53%
- Rocket Lab Corp. 0.39%
- Cheniere Energy, Inc. 0.36%
- Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. 0.33%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. 0.32%
- Anglogold Ashanti plc 0.29%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.29%
- Natera, Inc. 0.27%
Only in SPYM
199 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.51%
- Apple Inc 6.59%
- Microsoft Corp 4.29%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.62%
- Alphabet Inc 3.25%
- Broadcom Inc 2.77%
- Alphabet Inc 2.59%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.02%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.92%
- Tesla Inc 1.83%
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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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