ETF comparison
IWY vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
68 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWY and VUG would leave roughly 82.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 17 bps cheaper than IWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
68 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWY | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 14.62% | 13.31% | 13.31% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 13.13% | 12.32% | 12.32% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 9.91% | 9.09% | 9.09% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.46% | 4.59% | 4.46% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 4.31% | 4.40% | 4.31% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.93% | 5.54% | 3.93% |
| 7 | Tesla Inc | 3.52% | 3.47% | 3.47% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.42% | 4.15% | 3.42% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.20% | 4.39% | 3.20% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 2.88% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 2.16% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corporation | 1.88% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
Only in IWY
42 total- AbbVie Inc. 1.64%
- Home Depot Inc. 1.06%
- Coca-Cola Co (The) 0.61%
- Amgen Inc. 0.59%
- Mckesson Corp. 0.42%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.39%
- Waste Management, Inc. 0.36%
- American Tower Corporation 0.34%
- Automatic Data Processing, Inc. 0.32%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY SA 0.32%
Only in VUG
84 total- Welltower Inc 0.47%
- Equinix Inc 0.34%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.33%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.33%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.32%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.30%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.29%
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc 0.25%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.22%
- S&P Global Inc 0.22%
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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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