IWSvsVB

iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF or Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 43% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 500 stocks in both. VB costs 0.03% a year against 0.23% for IWS, $20 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IWS returned +26.4% and VB +29.5%.

43%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IWS45% in stocks the other holds too
VB59% 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.

IWSVBYearly cost0.23%0.03%Net assets$15.6B$188.7BPositions7241,317Last 12 months+26.4%+29.5%3 years, a year+16.3%+16.7%5 years, a year+9.3%+7.7%Largest holdingBlackrock 1.8%Vanguard 1.7%Main sectorFinancial Services 17%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.

IWS$209VB$214
July 2019June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IWS: 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.