ETF comparison
VBR vs VTWO
Both US Small Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
416 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VBR and VTWO would leave roughly 25.1% 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 1 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/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 VBR vs VTWO.
Top shared holdings
416 shared in total| # | Holding | In VBR | In VTWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moog Inc | 0.26% | 0.30% | 0.26% |
| 2 | Viasat Inc | 0.25% | 0.29% | 0.25% |
| 3 | Watts Water Technologies Inc | 0.23% | 0.25% | 0.23% |
| 4 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.21% | 0.28% | 0.21% |
| 5 | Praxis Precision Medicines Inc | 0.20% | 0.26% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Old National Bancorp/IN | 0.19% | 0.25% | 0.19% |
| 7 | EnerSys | 0.18% | 0.25% | 0.18% |
| 8 | FirstCash Holdings Inc | 0.17% | 0.26% | 0.17% |
| 9 | Plexus Corp | 0.17% | 0.21% | 0.17% |
| 10 | Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp | 0.17% | 0.21% | 0.17% |
| 11 | Enpro Inc | 0.17% | 0.19% | 0.17% |
| 12 | Terex Corp | 0.17% | 0.19% | 0.17% |
Only in VBR
424 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 VTWO
1,529 total- Bloom Energy Corp 1.83%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.12%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.75%
- Fabrinet 0.69%
- Nextpower Inc 0.67%
- IonQ Inc 0.63%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.58%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.52%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.47%
- SiTime Corp 0.47%
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More comparisons with VBR
- VBR vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 20.9%
- VBR vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 20.8%
- VBR vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 20.2%
- VBR vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 19.2%
- VBR vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 17.5%
- VBR vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 16.7%
More comparisons with VTWO
- VTWO vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 24.8%
- VTWO vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 18.8%
- VTWO vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 6.1%
- VTWO vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 4.9%
- VTWO vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 4.9%
- VTWO vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 4.4%
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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