ETF comparison
PRF vs VB
US Value vs US Small Cap.
Invesco RAFI US 1000 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
587 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PRF and VB would leave roughly 16.1% 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
VB is 31 bps cheaper than PRF. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for PRF.
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 PRF vs VB.
Top shared holdings
587 shared in total| # | Holding | In PRF | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centene Corp. | 0.39% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 2 | Moderna, Inc. | 0.17% | 0.30% | 0.17% |
| 3 | Steel Dynamics, Inc. | 0.14% | 0.19% | 0.14% |
| 4 | Best Buy Co., Inc. | 0.13% | 0.18% | 0.13% |
| 5 | Dow Inc. | 0.23% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 6 | Viatris Inc. | 0.12% | 0.22% | 0.12% |
| 7 | HF Sinclair Corp. | 0.12% | 0.13% | 0.12% |
| 8 | Bunge Global S.A. | 0.11% | 0.20% | 0.11% |
| 9 | Ovintiv Inc. | 0.10% | 0.18% | 0.10% |
| 10 | General Mills, Inc. | 0.10% | 0.11% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Reliance, Inc. | 0.09% | 0.23% | 0.09% |
| 12 | Baxter International Inc. | 0.09% | 0.13% | 0.09% |
Only in PRF
413 total- Apple Inc. 4.34%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.66%
- Microsoft Corp. 2.63%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 2.34%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.86%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.82%
- Intel Corp. 1.78%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.71%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.38%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc. 1.33%
Only in VB
722 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.35%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.34%
- ATI Inc 0.33%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.32%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.30%
- RB Global Inc 0.26%
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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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