ETF comparison
SMLF vs VUG
Multi-Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SMLF and VUG would leave roughly 0.5% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In SMLF | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs, Inc. | 0.70% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd. | 0.78% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Reddit, Inc. | 0.30% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. | 0.83% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | AST SpaceMobile, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Insmed, Inc. | 0.29% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Symbotic, Inc. | 0.10% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in SMLF
885 total- EMCOR Group, Inc. 0.95%
- 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%
- Tenet Healthcare Corp. 0.52%
Only in VUG
139 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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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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