ETF comparison
SMLF vs VIG
Multi-Factor vs Dividend.
iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
86 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SMLF and VIG would leave roughly 3.0% 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
VIG is 11 bps cheaper than SMLF. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
86 shared in total| # | Holding | In SMLF | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Casey's General Stores, Inc. | 0.32% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | 0.61% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 3 | Reliance, Inc. | 0.56% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | ITT, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Royal Gold, Inc. | 0.32% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | Nordson Corp. | 0.14% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | BWX Technologies, Inc. | 0.22% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Carlisle Cos., Inc. | 0.28% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | DT Midstream, Inc. | 0.24% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | Albemarle Corp. | 0.16% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Assurant, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | RPM International, Inc. | 0.15% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in SMLF
806 total- EMCOR Group, Inc. 0.95%
- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. 0.83%
- nVent Electric plc 0.80%
- Flex Ltd. 0.78%
- Jabil, Inc. 0.75%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.70%
- Tapestry, Inc. 0.66%
- Natera, Inc. 0.62%
- Mueller Industries, Inc. 0.59%
- Popular, Inc. 0.54%
Only in VIG
247 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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- VIG vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 2.5%
- VIG vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 2.2%
- VIG vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 2.0%
- VIG vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 1.9%
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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