ETF comparison
VB vs VTWO
Both US Small Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
683 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VTWO would leave roughly 25.3% 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
VB is 3 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 VB vs VTWO.
Top shared holdings
683 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VTWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moog Inc | 0.15% | 0.34% | 0.15% |
| 2 | Hut 8 Corp | 0.14% | 0.26% | 0.14% |
| 3 | Viasat Inc | 0.14% | 0.27% | 0.14% |
| 4 | Cytokinetics Inc | 0.14% | 0.30% | 0.14% |
| 5 | BrightSpring Health Services Inc | 0.14% | 0.30% | 0.14% |
| 6 | MaxLinear Inc | 0.13% | 0.17% | 0.13% |
| 7 | Argan Inc | 0.13% | 0.19% | 0.13% |
| 8 | Krystal Biotech Inc | 0.13% | 0.30% | 0.13% |
| 9 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.12% | 0.33% | 0.12% |
| 10 | CareTrust REIT Inc | 0.12% | 0.28% | 0.12% |
| 11 | Cipher Digital Inc | 0.12% | 0.17% | 0.12% |
| 12 | JFrog Ltd | 0.11% | 0.35% | 0.11% |
Only in VB
626 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
Only in VTWO
1,308 total- SSR Mining Inc 0.27%
- Scholar Rock Holding Corp 0.20%
- Travere Therapeutics Inc 0.19%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.19%
- Enova International Inc 0.18%
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG 0.17%
- Definium Therapeutics Inc 0.17%
- Golar LNG Ltd 0.16%
- Dianthus Therapeutics Inc 0.16%
- Brookfield Infrastructure Corp 0.15%
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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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