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IWR vs VUG

US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.

iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
7.1 %

66 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWR and VUG would leave roughly 7.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IWR unmatched 92.7% Shared 7.1% VUG unmatched 92.8%

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.

In IWR only
758 positions
Shared
66 positions
In VUG only
80 positions

Side by side

IWR

iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF

iShares · US Mid Cap

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.18%
Net assets
$54.90B
TTM yield
1.16%
Top-10 conc.
5.6%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$392.07B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.40%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

82
Cost
97
88
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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IWR sub-score VUG

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Cost difference

VUG is 15 bps cheaper than IWR. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 VUG.

Top shared holdings

66 shared in total
# Holding In IWR In VUG Overlap
1 Datadog, Inc. 0.62% 0.26% 0.26%
2 Snowflake, Inc. 0.61% 0.25% 0.25%
3 Robinhood Markets, Inc. 0.56% 0.23% 0.23%
4 Cloudflare, Inc. 0.56% 0.23% 0.23%
5 Coherent Corp. 0.50% 0.23% 0.23%
6 Teradyne, Inc. 0.55% 0.23% 0.23%
7 Comfort Systems USA, Inc. 0.50% 0.21% 0.21%
8 Lumentum Holdings, Inc. 0.44% 0.20% 0.20%
9 WW Grainger, Inc. 0.43% 0.19% 0.19%
10 Rocket Lab Corp. 0.39% 0.18% 0.18%
11 Targa Resources Corp. 0.41% 0.18% 0.18%
12 Fastenal Co. 0.40% 0.17% 0.17%

Only in IWR

758 total
  • Marathon Petroleum Corp. 0.54%
  • Simon Property Group, Inc. 0.52%
  • United Rentals, Inc. 0.51%
  • Phillips 66 0.49%
  • Warner Bros Discovery, Inc. 0.46%
  • Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 0.45%
  • Kinder Morgan, Inc. 0.45%
  • Delta Air Lines, Inc. 0.44%
  • Allstate Corp. (The) 0.44%
  • Keysight Technologies, Inc. 0.43%

Only in VUG

80 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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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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