ETF comparison
IWV vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
141 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWV and VUG would leave roughly 51.6% 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 17 bps cheaper than IWV. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for IWV.
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 IWV vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
141 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWV | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 6.43% | 12.63% | 6.43% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 5.76% | 11.67% | 5.76% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.82% | 7.61% | 3.82% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.19% | 4.47% | 3.19% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC | 2.87% | 5.76% | 2.87% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.42% | 4.28% | 2.42% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC | 2.31% | 4.53% | 2.31% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS INC | 1.71% | 3.41% | 1.71% |
| 9 | TESLA INC | 1.69% | 3.27% | 1.69% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.32% | 2.81% | 1.32% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 1.30% | 2.62% | 1.30% |
| 12 | INTEL CORP | 0.84% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
Only in IWV
2,449 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.79%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC 1.28%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 1.21%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.84%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 0.78%
- WALMART INC 0.68%
- CATERPILLAR INC 0.67%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.64%
- ABBVIE INC 0.61%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.52%
Only in VUG
5 total- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Cerebras Systems Inc 0.04%
- Symbotic Inc 0.02%
- Venture Global Inc 0.02%
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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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