IWMvsVTWO

iShares Russell 2000 ETF or Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 73% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,397 stocks in both. VTWO costs 0.06% a year against 0.19% for IWM, $13 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IWM returned +40.6% and VTWO +43.2%.

73%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IWM87% in stocks the other holds too
VTWO75% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

IWMVTWOYearly cost0.19%0.06%Net assets$83.0B$17.5BPositions2,0171,957Last 12 months+40.6%+43.2%3 years, a year+18.4%+20.3%5 years, a year+6.9%+6.7%Largest holdingBlackRock 17.0%Vanguard 2.4%Main sectorHealthcare 19%Technology 18%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026May 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

IWM$212VTWO$215
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

1,397 stocks are in both funds: 87% of IWM and 75% of VTWO. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin IWMin VTWO
HUT0.4%0.4%MOG-A0.4%0.3%VSAT0.4%0.3%CYTK0.3%0.3%UMBF0.3%0.3%RIOT0.3%0.3%QBTS0.3%0.3%CTRE0.3%0.3%PRAX0.3%0.3%AGX0.3%0.3%

Only in IWM

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. FROGJFrog Ltd.0.3%
  2. AXTIAXT, Inc.0.1%
  3. TTANServiceTitan, Inc.0.1%
  4. OPENOpendoor Technologies Inc.0.1%
  5. ONDSOndas Inc.0.1%
  6. HNGEHinge Health, Inc.0.1%

Only in VTWO

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. BEBloom Energy Corporation1.8%
  2. CRDOCredo Technology Group Holding Ltd1.1%
  3. STRLSterling Infrastructure, Inc.0.8%
  4. FNFabrinet0.7%
  5. NXTNextpower Inc.0.7%
  6. IONQIonQ, Inc.0.6%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IWM: June 2026, VTWO: May 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.