IWRvsVB

iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF or Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 44% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 568 stocks in both. VB costs 0.03% a year against 0.18% for IWR, $15 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IWR returned +21.5% and VB +29.5%.

44%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IWR45% in stocks the other holds too
VB71% 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.

IWRVBYearly cost0.18%0.03%Net assets$57.0B$188.7BPositions8301,317Last 12 months+21.5%+29.5%3 years, a year+16.3%+16.7%5 years, a year+8.3%+7.7%Largest holdingBlackRock 2.6%Vanguard 1.7%Main sectorIndustrials 18%Industrials 20%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jun 30, 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 July 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

IWR$218VB$214
July 2019June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IWR: June 2026, VB: June 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.