ETF comparison
IWF vs VONG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
387 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and VONG would leave roughly 97.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VONG is 12 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for IWF.
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 IWF vs VONG.
Top shared holdings
387 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In VONG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 12.92% | 12.20% | 12.20% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 11.64% | 11.36% | 11.36% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 8.82% | 8.65% | 8.65% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 4.79% | 4.60% | 4.60% |
| 5 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 4.66% | 4.33% | 4.33% |
| 6 | TESLA, INC. | 3.55% | 3.58% | 3.55% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.54% | 3.60% | 3.54% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.46% | 3.76% | 3.46% |
| 9 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.87% | 2.92% | 2.87% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 2.66% | 2.94% | 2.66% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 1.84% | 1.78% | 1.78% |
| 12 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | 1.60% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
Only in IWF
0 totalEvery IWF position is also held by VONG.
Only in VONG
3 total- Confluent Inc 0.03%
- Exact Sciences Corp 0.00%
- Medline Inc 0.00%
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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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