ETF comparison
RWR vs VNQ
Both Real Estate.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF · Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
94 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of RWR and VNQ would leave roughly 64.7% 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
VNQ is 12 bps cheaper than RWR. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for RWR.
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 RWR vs VNQ.
Top shared holdings
94 shared in total| # | Holding | In RWR | In VNQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welltower Inc | 10.57% | 8.51% | 8.51% |
| 2 | Prologis Inc | 9.15% | 7.01% | 7.01% |
| 3 | Equinix Inc | 4.45% | 5.23% | 4.45% |
| 4 | Simon Property Group Inc | 4.66% | 3.88% | 3.88% |
| 5 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 4.40% | 3.37% | 3.37% |
| 6 | Realty Income Corp | 4.42% | 3.08% | 3.08% |
| 7 | Public Storage | 4.36% | 2.83% | 2.83% |
| 8 | Ventas Inc | 4.06% | 2.31% | 2.31% |
| 9 | Extra Space Storage Inc | 2.88% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 10 | AvalonBay Communities Inc | 2.46% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 11 | Equity Residential | 2.18% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 12 | Essex Property Trust Inc | 1.76% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
Only in RWR
5 total- National Storage Affiliates Trust 0.30%
- Sila Realty Trust Inc 0.16%
- Service Properties Trust 0.10%
- Fermi Inc 0.03%
- NET Lease Office Properties 0.02%
Only in VNQ
47 total- Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund 14.50%
- American Tower Corp 4.20%
- CBRE Group Inc 2.25%
- Iron Mountain Inc 1.89%
- Crown Castle Inc 1.73%
- VICI Properties Inc 1.37%
- SBA Communications Corp 1.00%
- Weyerhaeuser Co 0.94%
- Jones Lang LaSalle Inc 0.87%
- Lamar Advertising Co 0.72%
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More comparisons with RWR
- RWR vs REZ · iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF 46.0%
- RWR vs USRT · iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF 88.2%
- RWR vs SCHH · Schwab U.S. REIT ETF 80.5%
- RWR vs FREL · Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF 75.9%
- RWR vs IYR · iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF 74.0%
- RWR vs XLRE · State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF 68.4%
More comparisons with VNQ
- VNQ vs XLRE · State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF 62.8%
- VNQ vs REZ · iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF 28.6%
- VNQ vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 2.2%
- VNQ vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 1.8%
- VNQ vs VNQI · Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VNQ vs FREL · Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF 84.6%
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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