ETF comparison
USMV vs VTI
Low Volatility Factor vs US Total Market.
iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
163 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of USMV and VTI would leave roughly 32.2% 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
VTI is 12 bps cheaper than USMV. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for USMV.
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 USMV vs VTI.
Top shared holdings
163 shared in total| # | Holding | In USMV | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 1.62% | 3.83% | 1.62% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 1.32% | 6.36% | 1.32% |
| 3 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.47% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 1.02% | 2.47% | 1.02% |
| 5 | APPLE INC. | 0.90% | 5.87% | 0.90% |
| 6 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 1.54% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 7 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 0.78% | 1.40% | 0.78% |
| 8 | VISA INC. | 1.00% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 9 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 0.69% | 1.31% | 0.69% |
| 10 | WALMART INC. | 0.71% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 11 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 0.65% | 0.79% | 0.65% |
| 12 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 0.64% | 1.80% | 0.64% |
Only in USMV
2 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 1.39%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.36%
Only in VTI
3,341 total- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.12%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.78%
- Intel Corp 0.78%
- Lam Research Corp 0.75%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.68%
- KLA Corp 0.54%
- General Electric Co 0.54%
- Bank of America Corp 0.50%
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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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