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Vanguard S&P 500 ETF logoiShares Russell 2000 ETF logoVOO vs IWM overlap

VOO and IWM hold no company in common. Still, 66% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Information Technology.

Holdings as of August 31, 2026 · source: Vanguard (VOO), iShares (IWM) · How we measured all 435 pairs

overlapfull holdings, by weight
0.0%of each fund is money the other holds at the same weight, across 0 shared companies.
VOO
100%
IWM
100%
  • same money
  • same companies, extra weight
  • only in this fund
Overlap = the sum, over companies both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights. Cash and derivatives excluded.
01Different

What only one of them gives you

only in VOO505 names
Alphabet Inc logoGOOGAlphabet Inc2.40%
only in IWM1,975 names
TWTWSTTWIST BIOSCIENCE0.40%
MOMOG-AMOOG INC CLASS A0.36%
HUHUTHUT CORP0.35%
FRFROGJFROG0.34%
UMUMBFUMB FINANCIAL0.33%
TXTXG10X GENOMICS CLASS A0.33%
VSVSATVIASAT INC0.31%
BTBTSGBRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES INC0.31%
02Sectors

No stock in common, 66% in the same sectors

sectorsVOO vs IWM, share of each fund
Information Technology37.84%13.72%
Financials12.23%19.01%
Health Care9.27%20.35%
Industrials8.29%14.05%
Consumer Discretionary9.13%8.77%
Communication Services9.48%2.45%
Energy3.39%6.76%
Real Estate1.80%5.68%
Consumer Staples4.49%1.95%
Materials1.83%4.21%
Utilities1.98%2.68%
03Questions

VOO and IWM: what people ask

questions4 answered

How much do VOO and IWM overlap?

None by holdings, as of August 31, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 66% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Information Technology.

Which stocks do VOO and IWM both hold?

None. VOO and IWM have no holding in common.

Is it redundant to hold both VOO and IWM?

No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 2,480 different holdings that behave like 174 equally weighted stocks, against 46 for VOO alone and 842 for IWM alone. Whether that mix suits you depends on what you want to own; this is a description, not advice.

How is ETF overlap calculated here?

For every company held by both funds we take the smaller of its two weights and add them up. The weights come from the full holdings files Vanguard and iShares publish, not a top-10 sample, and companies are matched by their ISIN so share classes stay apart. Sector overlap applies the same rule to the issuers' sector labels; "behaves like N equally weighted stocks" is one over the sum of the squared weights.

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Weights come from each issuer's published holdings file and are matched company by company on their ISIN. Cash, futures and currency positions are left out. This page describes what the funds hold; it is not investment advice.