IUSG vs IWF
iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF and iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF side by side. Fees, fund size, returns, yield and risk, all from live data. Add a third or fourth ticker to widen the comparison.
When price history is available, each instrument is computed live from its actual dividend-adjusted price history: price, trailing and since-inception returns, max drawdown, beta, Sharpe, a growth-of-$10k path, and dividend yield from the real distributions paid over the last 12 months. All returns are total returns (dividends and distributions reinvested), which is why a fund that pays large cash distributions (a managed-futures ETF, say) can far outrun its own price chart. Fund-only fields such as expense ratio show for ETFs. "Best" highlights the most favourable value in each row across the selected instruments (lowest fee; highest return, yield or Sharpe; smallest drawdown). Growth of $10,000 uses only dates with valid dividend-adjusted prices for every selected instrument, capped at the last 10 years. Each balance equals $10,000 × adjusted price / adjusted price on the common starting date. No prices are backfilled before inception or carried forward across missing dates. Lines connect the available weekly observations without curve smoothing; intraperiod moves are not shown. Legend percentages are total returns over the displayed dates. The table’s trailing returns and full-history maximum drawdown use their own periods. This is a hypothetical historical illustration before tax, not a forecast.
Returns use the same dividend-adjusted weekly series and trailing-window calculation as ETF Analyzer. Quotes refresh about every two minutes while this page is visible; summaries and weekly history refresh about every 15 minutes. Quote timestamps and return observation dates are shown for each instrument. During an interruption, dated cached quotes are available for at most 10 minutes after retrieval, and history or summaries for at most 24 hours; delayed data is marked and retried. A cache retrieval date is not a market observation date. Returns require dividend-adjusted closes and never substitute a live quote for the final historical bar. Backtester uses monthly observations; partial-month endpoints can differ.
About this comparison
iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF (IUSG) is an iShares exchange-traded fund in the Growth category, with price history going back to 2000. iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF) is an iShares exchange-traded fund in the Growth category, with price history going back to 2000. Both trade through the day like a share and both publish what they hold. The table on this page puts them next to each other and fills in cost, fund size, returns, yield and risk from live market data.
The two sit in the same category, Growth, which is why their return lines tend to travel together. What separates them is cost, scale and track record: IUSG has price history back to 2000, IWF back to 2000. Read the expense ratio, fund size and years-in-existence rows first, then check whether the return and risk rows really do diverge or only look like they might.
Which is cheaper, IUSG or IWF?
The expense ratio row in the table above answers it live, and the lower figure carries a best tag. A fee is a yearly percentage of what you hold, taken out of the fund rather than billed to you, which is exactly why it is easy to shrug at over one year and hard to shrug at over thirty.
Which holds more companies, IUSG or IWF?
Holdings counts shift at every index rebalance, so scope is the honest answer. IUSG covers companies screened for faster-growing sales and earnings. IWF covers companies screened for faster-growing sales and earnings. The wider scope is the one that spreads your money across more positions.
Can I hold both IUSG and IWF?
Nothing stops you and plenty of people do. The question worth asking first is how much the two overlap: funds drawn from the same pool of companies leave you with one bet wearing two tickers, while funds with genuinely different scopes widen what you own. Put the pair through the portfolio backtester and the correlation tool to see which of the two you would actually be doing. General information, not advice.
Which suits a taxable account, IUSG or IWF?
Both are exchange-traded funds, and the structure itself is the part that usually matters: an ETF can hand appreciated shares off in kind when large holders leave, which keeps forced capital-gains distributions rarer than in a traditional mutual fund. What separates two ETFs is how much income each throws off, since dividends and option premiums are taxable in the year they land, and how often the underlying index turns over. Read the dividend yield row with that in mind and check your own tax position before acting.