ETF comparison
SMLF vs VB
Multi-Factor vs US Small Cap.
iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF · Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
680 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SMLF and VB would leave roughly 48.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VB is 12 bps cheaper than SMLF. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SMLF.
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 SMLF vs VB.
Top shared holdings
680 shared in total| # | Holding | In SMLF | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EMCOR Group, Inc. | 1.33% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 2 | Tapestry, Inc. | 0.66% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 3 | Jabil, Inc. | 0.88% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | Natera, Inc. | 0.49% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 5 | United Therapeutics Corp. | 0.51% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 6 | Curtiss-Wright Corp. | 0.43% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 7 | FTAI Aviation Ltd. | 0.35% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 8 | Expand Energy Corp. | 0.35% | 0.37% | 0.35% |
| 9 | Flex Ltd. | 0.68% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | Casey's General Stores, Inc. | 0.32% | 0.38% | 0.32% |
| 11 | Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 12 | Royal Gold, Inc. | 0.39% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
Only in SMLF
210 total- BlackRock Funds III 7.81%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.95%
- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. 0.78%
- Reddit, Inc. 0.33%
- Vita Coco Co., Inc. (The) 0.31%
- XP, Inc. 0.30%
- SharkNinja, Inc. 0.28%
- Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior SA 0.27%
- Liberty Global Ltd. 0.25%
- Perdoceo Education Corp. 0.24%
Only in VB
631 total- NRG Energy Inc 0.43%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.43%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.39%
- Ciena Corp 0.38%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.35%
- Comfort Systems USA Inc 0.34%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.33%
- Coherent Corp 0.31%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.29%
- MasTec Inc 0.28%
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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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