ETF comparison
IWR vs SPY
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap.
iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
286 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWR and SPY would leave roughly 12.7% 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
SPY is 9 bps cheaper than IWR. On a $100,000 position that's about $86/yr more in fees for IWR.
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 IWR vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
286 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWR | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marathon Petroleum Corp. | 0.54% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 2 | Phillips 66 | 0.49% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 3 | Moderna, Inc. | 0.18% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | Simon Property Group, Inc. | 0.52% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 5 | United Rentals, Inc. | 0.51% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 6 | Robinhood Markets, Inc. | 0.56% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | Allstate Corp. (The) | 0.44% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | Cencora, Inc. | 0.38% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 0.26% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. | 0.43% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | 0.45% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | WW Grainger, Inc. | 0.43% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in IWR
538 total- Snowflake, Inc. 0.61%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. 0.58%
- Cloudflare, Inc. 0.56%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.53%
- Warner Bros Discovery, Inc. 0.46%
- Flex Ltd. 0.43%
- Corteva, Inc. 0.41%
- ONEOK, Inc. 0.40%
- Rocket Lab Corp. 0.39%
- Electronic Arts, Inc. 0.37%
Only in SPY
218 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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