IWSvsVBR

iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF or Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 33% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 344 stocks in both. VBR costs 0.05% a year against 0.23% for IWS, $18 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IWS returned +26.4% and VBR +27.0%.

33%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IWS34% in stocks the other holds too
VBR67% 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.

IWSVBRYearly cost0.23%0.05%Net assets$15.6B$67.8BPositions724845Last 12 months+26.4%+27.0%3 years, a year+16.3%+16.1%5 years, a year+9.3%+9.2%Largest holdingBlackrock 1.8%Vanguard 0.9%Main sectorFinancial Services 17%Industrials 17%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$209VBR$215
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

344 stocks are in both funds: 34% of IWS and 67% of VBR. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin IWSin VBR
Q0.3%0.4%FLEX0.6%0.3%CNC0.3%0.3%ATO0.3%0.6%STLD0.3%0.3%MKSI0.3%0.3%ILMN0.3%0.3%MRNA0.3%0.5%SW0.2%0.5%WSM0.2%0.6%

Only in IWS

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. PSXPhillips 660.6%
  2. DLRDigital Realty0.6%
  3. KMIKinder Morgan0.6%
  4. ALLAllstate0.6%
  5. HPEHewlett Packard Enterprise0.6%
  6. ORealty Income0.6%

Only in VBR

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. JBLJabil0.9%
  2. NRGNRG Energy0.7%
  3. TPRTapestry, Inc.0.6%
  4. EMEEmcor0.4%
  5. MOG-AMoog Inc.0.3%
  6. AALAmerican Airlines Group Inc.0.3%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IWS: June 2026, VBR: 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.