ETF comparison
IWF vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
127 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and VUG would leave roughly 84.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 15 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
127 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 12.92% | 13.31% | 12.92% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 11.64% | 12.32% | 11.64% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 8.82% | 9.09% | 8.82% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 4.66% | 4.59% | 4.59% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 4.79% | 4.40% | 4.40% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.54% | 5.54% | 3.54% |
| 7 | TESLA, INC. | 3.55% | 3.47% | 3.47% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.46% | 4.15% | 3.46% |
| 9 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.87% | 4.39% | 2.87% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 2.66% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 1.84% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 12 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | 1.60% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
Only in IWF
260 total- ABBVIE INC. 1.39%
- THE HOME DEPOT, INC. 0.90%
- THE COCA-COLA COMPANY 0.52%
- AMGEN INC. 0.50%
- MCKESSON CORPORATION 0.36%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.34%
- WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. 0.31%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.29%
- AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC. 0.27%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.27%
Only in VUG
25 total- Welltower Inc 0.47%
- Equinix Inc 0.34%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.33%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.30%
- S&P Global Inc 0.22%
- Teradyne Inc 0.17%
- Western Digital Corp 0.17%
- T-Mobile US Inc 0.17%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.15%
- Vulcan Materials Co 0.13%
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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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