iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)
Small Cap · Benchmark: Russell 2000 Index · Domiciled in US
VMCI-Composite holdings score
ValueMarkers builds the VMCI-Composite by taking the underlying VMCI score for each of the ETF's top-10 holdings and weighting it by the holding's share of the fund. The number summarizes the fundamentals of the largest positions on the five-pillar framework — Value, Quality, Integrity, Growth, Risk.
iShares Russell 2000 ETF — analysis
IWM's headline numbers: $83.2B AUM, 39 bps expense ratio, 2015 inception. Category: Small Cap. Benchmark: Russell 2000 Index. iShares Russell 2000 ETF is the issuer-titled fund managed against that index since launch.
IWM VMCI-Composite: 56/100. The metric weighs the underlying companies' VMCI by their fund weight (top 10), so it captures whether the index methodology is selecting fundamentally cheaper, higher-quality, or lower-risk names. Read: mid-table composite quality.
Trailing total return on IWM: 14.6% 5y CAGR. The Russell 2000 Index index returned 15.0% per year over the same window, leaving the fund below index by -0.4 pp annualized.
Income line on IWM: 1.10% trailing yield, 3.6% 5-year distribution CAGR. The starting yield combined with the growth rate is the standard back-of-envelope for total-income compounding inside the fund.
Holdings detail for IWM: 31% in top 10 (AAPL 3.68% the largest), with Technology at 34% of the allocation. The remaining sector mix spreads across 11 categories.
For a small cap allocation, the comparable trio to IWM is IJR, VTI. The screener and ETF browse pages on ValueMarkers let you sort all four side-by-side on AUM, cost, return, and yield.
Top 25 holdings
| # | Ticker | Weight | VMCI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAPL | 3.68% | 51 |
| 2 | MSFT | 3.48% | 79 |
| 3 | NVDA | 3.48% | 48 |
| 4 | AMZN | 3.38% | 55 |
| 5 | GOOGL | 3.09% | 41 |
| 6 | META | 2.89% | 42 |
| 7 | BRK-B | 2.89% | 63 |
| 8 | TSLA | 2.79% | 71 |
| 9 | V | 2.70% | 43 |
| 10 | JPM | 2.55% | 62 |
| 11 | UNH | 2.25% | 68 |
| 12 | XOM | 2.21% | 55 |
| 13 | JNJ | 2.11% | 47 |
| 14 | PG | 1.96% | 66 |
| 15 | MA | 1.81% | 89 |
| 16 | HD | 1.52% | 47 |
| 17 | MRK | 1.47% | 81 |
| 18 | AVGO | 1.18% | 54 |
| 19 | PEP | 0.98% | 40 |
| 20 | COST | 0.98% | 82 |
| 21 | KO | 0.88% | 81 |
| 22 | WMT | 0.59% | 69 |
| 23 | BAC | 0.39% | 49 |
| 24 | CVX | 0.54% | 42 |
| 25 | ADBE | 0.20% | 61 |
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