Which returned more over the last year, URTH or VO?

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, URTH returned +13.1% and VO +12.8%.

Which is cheaper, URTH or VO?

VO is cheaper, by 0.21 percentage points a year. That is about $21 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do URTH and VO overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 69% of URTH and 91% of VO by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

Across categories

URTH vs VO: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, URTH returned +13.1% to VO's +12.8%; 13% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $8.9bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares MSCI World ETF, and $103.4bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF.

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At a glance

+13.1%

URTH total return, 1 year

+12.8%

VO total return, 1 year

0.24%

URTH expense ratio

0.03%

VO expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VO costs 0.21 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 0.3 points; VO is 12.6 times larger.

URTH vs VO: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	URTH	VO
Return
Measure	URTH	VO
Total return, 1 year	+13.1%	+12.8%
Drawdown
Measure	URTH	VO
Below its high		3.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	URTH	VO
What it tracks	MSCI World Index	Morningstar US Mid Cap Index (formerly CRSP US Mid Cap Index)
Cost and size
Measure	URTH	VO
Expense ratio	0.24%	0.03%
Net assets, as of Sep 30, 2026	$8.2bn	$103.4bn
Holdings
Measure	URTH	VO
Holdings in common	13%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	27.2%	9.7%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026. Method

Risk and return

Jan 20, 2012 to Oct 23, 2026 · 770 weekly returns

URTH VO

Return

Total return edge Tie +421.6% +428.6%

Annualized edge Tie +11.8% +11.9%

Price return edge VO (slight) +296.2% +324.9%

Risk

Volatility edge URTH (slight) 15.6% 17.2%

Max drawdown edge URTH −32.7% −37.4%

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe edge URTH (slight) 0.68 0.64

Sortino edge URTH (slight) 0.97 0.92

Calmar edge URTH 0.36 0.32

Reading

URTH and VO returned about the same: +421.6% and +428.6%. URTH swung slightly less: 15.6% to 17.2%. URTH fell less at its worst: −32.7% to −37.4%.

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Risk and return: URTH vs VO: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	URTH	VO	Edge	How it is measured
Return
Total return	+421.6%	+428.6%	Tie	Price change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized	+11.8%	+11.9%	Tie	Total return as a yearly rate.
Price return	+296.2%	+324.9%	VO (slight)	Price change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility	15.6%	17.2%	URTH (slight)	Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation	10.9%	12.0%	URTH (slight)	Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown	−32.7%	−37.4%	URTH	Deepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe	0.68	0.64	URTH (slight)	Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino	0.97	0.92	URTH (slight)	Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Calmar	0.36	0.32	URTH	Annualized return divided by the max drawdown.

Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 770 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.

What they share

13%

By the books each fund has filed, URTH and VO hold 13% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.

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13% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first URTH VO

ROCHE PS PAR AG 0.37% 0.34%

MARATHON PETROLEUM 0.14% 1.10%

FORTINET 0.13% 0.55%

NEWMONT 0.13% 0.60%

VALERO ENERGY CORP 0.13% 1.10%

PHILLIPS 66 0.12% 1.01%

SNOWFLAKE 0.12% 0.55%

CLOUDFLARE CLASS A 0.11% 1.11%

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM N AG 0.11% 0.25%

DATADOG INC CLASS A 0.10% 0.91%

JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC 0.10% 0.45%

WILLIAMS 0.10% 0.41%

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Only in URTH

APPLE 5.60%

NVIDIA 5.50%

MICROSOFT 4.12%

AMAZON.COM INC 2.69%

ALPHABET CLASS A 2.07%

BROADCOM INC 1.70%

ALPHABET CLASS C 1.62%

META PLATFORMS CLASS A 1.49%

Only in VO

Warner Bros Discovery Inc 0.73%

Moderna Inc 0.34%

Ingersoll Rand Inc 0.29%

MKTLIQ 0.17%

SLCMT1142 0.12%

Southwest Airlines Co 0.10%

Cerebras Systems Inc 0.05%

TKO Group Holdings Inc 0.05%

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Side by side

URTH iShares MSCI World ETF VO Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer iShares Vanguard

What it is Tracks the MSCI World Tracks an index of Mid-Cap

Total return, 1 year +13.1% +12.8%

Its benchmark over the same days +13.4% (ACWI) not measured

Gap to its benchmark −0.3 pts vs ACWI not measured

Expense ratio 0.24% 0.03%

Already in the S&P 500 69.1% 91.1%

Holdings 1254 273

Net assets, URTH as of Oct 28, 2026 and VO as of Sep 30, 2026 $8.9bn $103.4bn

URTH and VO on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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URTH and VO do different jobs. What does each one do in a portfolio?

What each follows. URTH follows MSCI World Index and VO follows Morningstar US Mid Cap Index (formerly CRSP US Mid Cap Index).
Holdings in common. 13% of the weight is in the same securities (holdings dated Oct 27, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026).
Number of holdings. URTH holds 1,254 positions and VO holds 273.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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About each fund

URTH

URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.1% with distributions reinvested, against +13.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.24% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 27.2%.

VO tracks an index of Mid-Cap. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +12.8% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Sep 30, 2026, 91% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 273 positions, with the top ten at 9.7%. It sat 3.1% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, URTH or VO?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, URTH returned +13.1% and VO +12.8%.
Which is cheaper, URTH or VO?: VO is cheaper, by 0.21 percentage points a year. That is about $21 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do URTH and VO overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 69% of URTH and 91% of VO by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Sources and dates

URTH filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

URTH prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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VO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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