ETF comparison
SMLF vs VO
Multi-Factor vs US Mid Cap.
iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SMLF and VO would leave roughly 1.3% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In SMLF | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs, Inc. | 0.70% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd. | 0.78% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 3 | Reddit, Inc. | 0.30% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Rocket Cos., Inc. | 0.17% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 5 | AST SpaceMobile, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 6 | Insmed, Inc. | 0.29% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | Symbotic, Inc. | 0.10% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in SMLF
885 total- EMCOR Group, Inc. 0.95%
- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. 0.83%
- nVent Electric plc 0.80%
- Jabil, Inc. 0.75%
- Tapestry, Inc. 0.66%
- Natera, Inc. 0.62%
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. 0.61%
- Mueller Industries, Inc. 0.59%
- Reliance, Inc. 0.56%
- Popular, Inc. 0.54%
Only in VO
275 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
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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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