ETF comparison
VB vs VLUE
US Small Cap vs Value Factor.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VLUE would leave roughly 6.7% 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
VB is 12 bps cheaper than VLUE. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for VLUE.
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 VB vs VLUE.
Top shared holdings
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VLUE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flex Ltd | 0.36% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 2 | Twilio Inc | 0.38% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 3 | F5 Inc | 0.29% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 4 | Omnicom Group Inc | 0.25% | 0.26% | 0.25% |
| 5 | Okta Inc | 0.28% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | Bunge Global SA | 0.20% | 0.35% | 0.20% |
| 7 | Fedex Freight Holding Co Inc | 0.20% | 0.29% | 0.20% |
| 8 | Smurfit Westrock PLC | 0.29% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Textron Inc | 0.19% | 0.31% | 0.19% |
| 10 | Centene Corp | 0.19% | 0.50% | 0.19% |
| 11 | JB Hunt Transport Services Inc | 0.27% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | Best Buy Co Inc | 0.18% | 0.38% | 0.18% |
Only in VB
1,262 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Tapestry Inc 0.36%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.36%
Only in VLUE
104 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 18.98%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 4.65%
- GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY 3.99%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 2.97%
- AT&T INC. 2.55%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 2.21%
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY 2.14%
- COMCAST CORPORATION 1.78%
- CITIGROUP INC. 1.62%
- PFIZER INC. 1.60%
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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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