ETF comparison
IWR vs VOT
Both US Mid Cap.
iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
105 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWR and VOT would leave roughly 27.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VOT is 13 bps cheaper than IWR. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 VOT.
Top shared holdings
105 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWR | In VOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertiv Holdings Co. | 0.76% | 2.49% | 0.76% |
| 2 | Howmet Aerospace, Inc. | 0.73% | 2.40% | 0.73% |
| 3 | Western Digital Corp. | 0.73% | 1.19% | 0.73% |
| 4 | Corning, Inc. | 0.84% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 5 | Quanta Services, Inc. | 0.64% | 2.14% | 0.64% |
| 6 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | 0.55% | 1.74% | 0.55% |
| 7 | Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. | 0.55% | 0.91% | 0.55% |
| 8 | Ross Stores, Inc. | 0.55% | 1.82% | 0.55% |
| 9 | Cloudflare, Inc. | 0.51% | 1.62% | 0.51% |
| 10 | Realty Income Corp. | 0.44% | 1.48% | 0.44% |
| 11 | Ciena Corp. | 0.43% | 0.71% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Fastenal Co. | 0.42% | 1.39% | 0.42% |
Only in IWR
703 total- BlackRock Funds III 2.98%
- Sandisk Corp. 0.72%
- Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The) 0.65%
- Valero Energy Corp. 0.60%
- Cummins, Inc. 0.59%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp. 0.58%
- Phillips 66 0.58%
- Kinder Morgan, Inc. 0.52%
- L3Harris Technologies, Inc. 0.51%
- Warner Bros Discovery, Inc. 0.51%
Only in VOT
25 total- Constellation Energy Corp 2.24%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.22%
- Motorola Solutions Inc 1.87%
- TransDigm Group Inc 1.70%
- DoorDash Inc 1.36%
- Edwards Lifesciences Corp 1.21%
- Zoetis Inc 1.17%
- Marvell Technology Inc 1.12%
- Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc 1.08%
- Waste Connections Inc 1.08%
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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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