ETF comparison
IWY vs VONG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
110 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWY and VONG would leave roughly 88.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VONG is 14 bps cheaper than IWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for IWY.
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 IWY vs VONG.
Top shared holdings
110 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWY | In VONG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 14.62% | 12.20% | 12.20% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 13.13% | 11.36% | 11.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 9.91% | 8.65% | 8.65% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.46% | 4.33% | 4.33% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 4.31% | 4.60% | 4.31% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.93% | 3.60% | 3.60% |
| 7 | Tesla Inc | 3.52% | 3.58% | 3.52% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.42% | 3.76% | 3.42% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.20% | 2.92% | 2.92% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 2.88% | 2.94% | 2.88% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 2.16% | 1.78% | 1.78% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corporation | 1.88% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
Only in IWY
0 totalEvery IWY position is also held by VONG.
Only in VONG
280 total- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.37%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.34%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 0.28%
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc 0.25%
- Cencora Inc 0.24%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.23%
- Vistra Corp 0.21%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.19%
- Monolithic Power Systems Inc 0.19%
- IDEXX Laboratories Inc 0.18%
Open IWY or VONG at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.