ETF comparison
VBR vs VIOV
Both US Small Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
284 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VBR and VIOV would leave roughly 16.7% 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
VBR is 5 bps cheaper than VIOV. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for VIOV.
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 VBR vs VIOV.
Top shared holdings
284 shared in total| # | Holding | In VBR | In VIOV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molina Healthcare Inc | 0.26% | 1.04% | 0.26% |
| 2 | Element Solutions Inc | 0.24% | 0.56% | 0.24% |
| 3 | Ralliant Corp | 0.18% | 0.39% | 0.18% |
| 4 | Plexus Corp | 0.17% | 0.47% | 0.17% |
| 5 | Eastman Chemical Co | 0.16% | 1.01% | 0.16% |
| 6 | Qorvo Inc | 0.16% | 0.38% | 0.16% |
| 7 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.15% | 0.85% | 0.15% |
| 8 | Arcosa Inc | 0.15% | 0.26% | 0.15% |
| 9 | Gates Industrial Corp PLC | 0.15% | 0.35% | 0.15% |
| 10 | Macerich Co/The | 0.15% | 0.35% | 0.15% |
| 11 | Terreno Realty Corp | 0.15% | 0.24% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Lincoln National Corp | 0.14% | 0.70% | 0.14% |
Only in VBR
556 total- Jabil Inc 0.87%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.66%
- Tapestry Inc 0.63%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.62%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc 0.59%
- Moderna Inc 0.54%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.52%
- F5 Inc 0.50%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.48%
- JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.47%
Only in VIOV
176 total- Match Group Inc 0.99%
- Paycom Software Inc 0.80%
- Lumen Technologies Inc 0.66%
- Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc 0.62%
- Diodes Inc 0.56%
- Liberty Energy Inc 0.55%
- CONSOL Energy Inc 0.53%
- MaxLinear Inc 0.50%
- Semtech Corp 0.49%
- RXO Inc 0.49%
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- VBR vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 10.2%
- VBR vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 10.1%
- VBR vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 10.0%
- VBR vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 9.8%
- VBR vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 9.5%
More comparisons with VIOV
- VIOV vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 12.8%
- VIOV vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 11.6%
- VIOV vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 7.6%
- VIOV vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 1.7%
- VIOV vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 1.7%
- VIOV vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 1.7%
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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