ETF comparison
IWS vs VTI
US Mid Cap vs US Total Market.
iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
693 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWS and VTI would leave roughly 15.3% 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
VTI is 20 bps cheaper than IWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for IWS.
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 IWS vs VTI.
Top shared holdings
693 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWS | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROBINHOOD MARKETS INC | 0.13% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 2 | COHERENT CORP | 0.54% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 3 | ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD | 0.34% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 4 | MARATHON PETROLEUM CORP | 0.36% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 5 | UNITED RENTALS INC | 0.53% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 6 | PHILLIPS 66 | 0.62% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC | 0.63% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC | 0.62% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | ALLSTATE CORP (THE) | 0.60% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | KINDER MORGAN INC | 0.61% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.25% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY | 0.59% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in IWS
27 total- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.23%
- AMCOR PLC 0.20%
- IREN LTD 0.13%
- SHARKNINJA INC 0.11%
- RESTAURANT BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC 0.10%
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC 0.10%
- GFL ENVIRONMENTAL INC 0.09%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR SA 0.08%
- QIAGEN NV 0.08%
- XP INC 0.06%
Only in VTI
2,811 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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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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