ETF comparison
VB vs VTWO
Both US Small Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
687 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VTWO would leave roughly 30.8% 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 3 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VTWO.
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 VTWO.
Top shared holdings
687 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VTWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd | 0.55% | 1.12% | 0.55% |
| 2 | Sterling Infrastructure Inc | 0.30% | 0.75% | 0.30% |
| 3 | Fabrinet | 0.24% | 0.69% | 0.24% |
| 4 | TTM Technologies Inc | 0.24% | 0.52% | 0.24% |
| 5 | Guardant Health Inc | 0.23% | 0.47% | 0.23% |
| 6 | Nextpower Inc | 0.21% | 0.67% | 0.21% |
| 7 | SiTime Corp | 0.20% | 0.47% | 0.20% |
| 8 | IonQ Inc | 0.19% | 0.63% | 0.19% |
| 9 | Coeur Mining Inc | 0.18% | 0.58% | 0.18% |
| 10 | Dycom Industries Inc | 0.18% | 0.44% | 0.18% |
| 11 | Semtech Corp | 0.18% | 0.42% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Rambus Inc | 0.17% | 0.46% | 0.17% |
Only in VB
622 total- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
- Tapestry Inc 0.36%
Only in VTWO
1,258 total- Bloom Energy Corp 1.83%
- Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc 0.20%
- SSR Mining Inc 0.19%
- Garrett Motion Inc 0.17%
- Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc 0.15%
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG 0.15%
- Brookfield Infrastructure Corp 0.15%
- Golar LNG Ltd 0.14%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.14%
- Constellium SE 0.14%
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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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