Which returned more over the last year, IWS or RSPA?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, IWS returned +20.2% and RSPA +12.6%.

Which is cheaper, IWS or RSPA?

IWS is cheaper, by 0.06 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $6. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do IWS and RSPA overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 66% of IWS and 74% of RSPA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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IWS vs RSPA: how they differ

IWS and RSPA hold 37% of their weight in the same names, and IWS returned +20.2% over the year. iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF.

IWS costs 0.06 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 7.6 points; IWS is 12.6 times larger.

	IWS	RSPA
Expense ratio	0.23%	0.29%
Net assets	$15.3bn	$1.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+20.2%	+12.6%
Holdings in common	37%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	7.0%	4.2%
Below its high	4.6%, high on Aug 14, 2026	3.2%, high on Aug 26, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026.

+20.2%

IWS total return, 1 year

+12.6%

RSPA total return, 1 year

0.23%

IWS expense ratio

0.29%

RSPA expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, IWS and RSPA hold 37% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Oct 8, 2026.

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half

37% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding IWS RSPA

MODERNA 0.72% 0.22%

PTC 0.21% 0.23%

ILLUMINA INC 0.40% 0.19%

NETAPP INC 0.29% 0.19%

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE 0.94% 0.18%

METTLER TOLEDO 0.31% 0.18%

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.47% 0.17%

MARATHON PETROLEUM 0.67% 0.17%

CARNIVAL CORP LTD 0.33% 0.17%

F5 0.26% 0.17%

KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES 0.27% 0.17%

REVVITY 0.17% 0.18%

Only in IWS

CHENIERE ENERGY 0.54%

OKTA CLASS A 0.36%

SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS INC 0.31%

ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS CLASS A 0.25%

ROYALTY PHARMA PLC CLASS A 0.23%

MARKEL GROUP 0.22%

UNITED THERAPEUTICS 0.22%

ENTEGRIS INC 0.21%

Only in RSPA

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.61%

Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.55%

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 0.43%

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.43%

Royal Bank of Canada 0.42%

Wells Fargo & Co 0.39%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.36%

Barclays Bank PLC 0.36%

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On the same fields

IWS

iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF

RSPA

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer iShares Invesco

What it is Tracks an index Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +20.2% +12.6%

S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%

Gap to the S&P 500 +3.0 pts −4.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.23% 0.29%

Already in the S&P 500 66.1% 74.0%

Holdings 719 520

Net assets $15.3bn $1.2bn

IWS and RSPA on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

IWS in plain words

IWS tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +20.2% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.23% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 66% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 719 positions, with the top ten at 7.0%. It sat 4.6% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

RSPA in plain words

RSPA is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +12.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.29% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 74% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 520 positions, with the top ten at 4.2%. It sat 3.2% below its high of Aug 26, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, IWS or RSPA?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, IWS returned +20.2% and RSPA +12.6%.
Which is cheaper, IWS or RSPA?: IWS is cheaper, by 0.06 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $6. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do IWS and RSPA overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 66% of IWS and 74% of RSPA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

IWS filings on SEC EDGAR ↗IWS prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for IWS ↗RSPA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RSPA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for RSPA ↗

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How this is computed

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

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