ETF comparison
IWY vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
64 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWY and VUG would leave roughly 75.3% 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
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
64 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWY | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 14.16% | 12.63% | 12.63% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 7.14% | 11.67% | 7.14% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC | 6.37% | 5.76% | 5.76% |
| 4 | MICROSOFT CORP | 4.56% | 7.61% | 4.56% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC | 5.14% | 4.53% | 4.53% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 5.64% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS INC | 3.68% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 8 | TESLA INC | 4.59% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 3.35% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 10 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 3.25% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 11 | APPLIED MATERIALS INC | 1.97% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 12 | VISA INC | 1.95% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
Only in IWY
37 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 4.87%
- CATERPILLAR INC 1.67%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 0.90%
- AMGEN INC 0.48%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.37%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP 0.36%
- MCKESSON CORP 0.30%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY SA 0.25%
- ROSS STORES INC 0.20%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY 0.18%
Only in VUG
82 total- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- McDonald's Corp 0.54%
- Welltower Inc 0.46%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.36%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Datadog Inc 0.26%
- Synopsys Inc 0.25%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.23%
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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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