ETF comparison
IWM vs MDY
US Small Cap vs US Mid Cap.
iShares Russell 2000 ETF · State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
76 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and MDY would leave roughly 11.6% 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
IWM is 4 bps cheaper than MDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for MDY.
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 IWM vs MDY.
Top shared holdings
76 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWM | In MDY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 2 | UMB Financial Corp. | 0.33% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 3 | Moog, Inc. | 0.38% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 4 | CareTrust REIT, Inc. | 0.28% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 5 | Cytokinetics, Inc. | 0.35% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | Old National Bancorp | 0.28% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Glaukos Corp. | 0.25% | 0.41% | 0.25% |
| 8 | Krystal Biotech, Inc. | 0.30% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | HealthEquity, Inc. | 0.24% | 0.26% | 0.24% |
| 10 | InterDigital, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | Brinker International, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.27% | 0.23% |
| 12 | FirstCash Holdings, Inc. | 0.28% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in IWM
1,938 total- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- Viasat, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- Argan, Inc. 0.34%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.30%
- ESCO Technologies, Inc. 0.29%
- Compass, Inc. 0.27%
- D-Wave Quantum, Inc. 0.27%
- Alkermes plc 0.27%
Only in MDY
325 total- U.S. Dollar 0.77%
- United Therapeutics Corporation 0.75%
- TechnipFMC plc 0.72%
- ATI Inc 0.70%
- US Foods Holding Corp. 0.68%
- Tenet Healthcare Corporation 0.67%
- Reliance Inc. 0.65%
- XPO Inc. 0.63%
- Entegris Inc. 0.63%
- Roku Inc. Class A 0.62%
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- IWM vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 11.4%
- IWM vs SPMD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF 11.2%
- IWM vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 11.2%
- IWM vs DFAC · DFA U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 10.1%
- IWM vs IJJ · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF 9.5%
- IWM vs DON · WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund 8.8%
More comparisons with MDY
- MDY vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 6.8%
- MDY vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 5.0%
- MDY vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 4.8%
- MDY vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 4.5%
- MDY vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 4.4%
- MDY vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 4.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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