ETF comparison
IWS vs VUG
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
36 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWS and VUG would leave roughly 3.0% 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 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
36 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWS | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COHERENT CORP | 0.54% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 2 | YUM! BRANDS INC | 0.30% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | ROBINHOOD MARKETS INC | 0.13% | 0.23% | 0.13% |
| 4 | BLOCK INC | 0.39% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 5 | OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE INC | 0.31% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 6 | ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD | 0.34% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 7 | MSCI INC | 0.37% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 8 | VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY | 0.37% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 9 | FLEX LTD | 0.58% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | COINBASE GLOBAL INC | 0.31% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | FASTENAL COMPANY | 0.10% | 0.17% | 0.10% |
| 12 | REALTY INCOME CORP | 0.57% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in IWS
684 total- WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC 0.63%
- PHILLIPS 66 0.62%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC 0.62%
- KINDER MORGAN INC 0.61%
- ALLSTATE CORP (THE) 0.60%
- HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY 0.59%
- DELTA AIR LINES INC 0.56%
- CORTEVA INC 0.56%
- AMETEK INC 0.54%
- BAKER HUGHES COMPANY 0.54%
Only in VUG
110 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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