ILCG vs SNPG: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

iShares Morningstar Growth ETF

ILCGANYSE Arca

Xtrackers S&P 500 Growth Scored & Screened ETF

SNPGBCboe

Overlap

38.9%by weight

Expense ratio

ILCG −0.11pt a year

ILCG0.04%SNPG0.15%

Avg volume · 30D

ILCG 48.9×the volume

ILCG70.4KSNPG1.44K

3Y return · a year

ILCG +0.3pt

ILCG+24.0%SNPG+23.7%

ILCG vs SNPG Performance

Oct 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026

+3.2%ILCG+8.2%SNPG

Expense ratio: ILCG 0.04%, better; SNPG 0.15%
Fund size: ILCG $3B; SNPG $14M
1Y total return: ILCG +3.2%; SNPG +8.2%, better
Yield (12M): ILCG 0.44%; SNPG 0.48%, better
Holdings: ILCG 328; SNPG 85
Avg volume (30D): ILCG 70.4K sh, better; SNPG 1.44K sh
NAV per share: ILCG $109.98; SNPG $56.79
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for ILCG, SNPG, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	ILCG	SNPG
Cost30% weight	A96Higher	B56
Mission25% weight	A100Higher	A95
Risk15% weight	C44	B64Higher
Tradability15% weight	B64Higher	D30
Holdings10% weight	C49Higher	C47
Durability5% weight	B64Higher	F16

Rank among US Growth Index funds

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Same Category. ILCG and SNPG are both graded against the same 35 US Growth Index funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

US Growth Index⁠

Category · 35 funds

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ILCG ranks 2nd and SNPG 19th of 35 funds in the US Growth Index Category.

Rank 1ASPYGState Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETFScore 84
Rank 2AILCGiShares Morningstar Growth ETFScore 78
Rank 2AIMCGiShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETFScore 78
Rank 19BIWYiShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETFScore 59
Rank 19BSNPGXtrackers S&P 500 Growth Scored & Screened ETFScore 59
Rank 22BCOWGPacer US Large Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETFScore 55

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

ILCGAiShares Morningstar Growth ETF

SNPGBXtrackers S&P 500 Growth Scored & Screened ETF

In short

ILCG Growth by Morningstar's rulebook. A 2004-vintage iShares fund that screens large and mid caps for above-average earnings, sales, cash-flow and book-value growth, and charges four basis points to do it.

SNPG Xtrackers runs the S&P 500's growth side through a scored-and-screened filter, landing on roughly 90 large-cap names instead of the full growth sleeve, priced under the growth-ETF median.

Stated mandate

ILCG The fund aims to follow an index of U.S. large- and mid-cap stocks chosen for above-average earnings, sales, cash-flow, and book-value growth.

SNPG The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the S&P 500 Growth Scored & Screened Index through a passive indexing approach.

Why people hold it

ILCG 0.04% a year. The typical fund in its factor peer group charges roughly eight times that, so almost none of the return leaks out the fee door.
Uses Morningstar's growth definition (earnings, sales, cash flow, book value) rather than S&P's or Russell's, and reaches into mid caps, not just the S&P 500.ishares.com
Trading since 2004, a multi-billion-dollar fund holding roughly 300 stocks. Long-running plumbing, not a launch-week experiment.
Tracking has been tight, and the fund sits in the upper half of its factor cohort overall, with cost doing much of the heavy lifting.

SNPG 0.15% a year, below the 0.18% median for US growth ETFs.
Tracks the S&P 500 Growth Scored & Screened Index closely, one of the stronger index-replication records in its peer group.
Roughly 90 holdings, so it's a filtered read on large-cap growth rather than a catch-all basket. Pays quarterly.

Worth knowing

ILCG Pure growth means no value ballast, and the ride has been bumpier than most funds in its factor group. The style can sit out of favor for long stretches.
Concentration runs high for the cohort: cap-weighted growth screens funnel a big share of the fund into the same handful of mega-cap names.
Moderately traded, not a tape leader. Sibling IUSG applies S&P's growth definition at the same 0.04%, so the pick is which index rulebook you prefer.

SNPG Small asset base and thin trading volume, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads than the household-name growth funds carry.
The plain-vanilla giants undercut it on fees: VUG at 0.03%, SPYG and SCHG at 0.04%.
The scoring and screening step means the portfolio is a subset of the S&P 500 growth cohort, so returns can diverge from unscreened growth benchmarks.

Full ILCG profile⁠

Full SNPG profile⁠

ILCG vs SNPG Holdings

How ILCG and SNPG differ

Overlap by weight

38.9%

Shared holdings make up 84.4% of SNPG and 45.8% of ILCG.

Level by level

Holdings62 in both38.9%
Sector11 Sectors85.4%
Asset classEquity100%
Countryby domicile99.6%

Sector

Sector weights in ILCG and SNPG, widest gap first
Sector	More in ILCGMore in SNPG	ILCG	SNPG
Health Care	SNPG +6.6 points	6.5%	13.2%
Technology	ILCG +6.1 points	53.5%	47.4%
Financials	SNPG +5.3 points	5.5%	10.8%
Consumer Discretionary	ILCG +5.0 points	9.7%	4.7%
Communication	SNPG +2.7 points	8.5%	11.2%
Energy	ILCG +0.8 points	0.8%	0.0%
Consumer Staples	ILCG +0.7 points	1.8%	1.1%
Industrials	ILCG +0.7 points	9.7%	9.0%
Materials	ILCG +0.5 points	1.4%	0.9%
Utilities	ILCG +0.5 points	0.9%	0.4%
Real Estate	ILCG +0.3 points	1.6%	1.3%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in ILCG and SNPG, widest gap first
Country	More in ILCGMore in SNPG	ILCG	SNPG
United States	SNPG +0.2 points	99.5%	99.7%
China	SNPG +0.3 points	0.1%	0.3%
Brazil	ILCG +0.1 points	0.1%	0.0%
Mexico	ILCG +0.1 points	0.1%	0.0%
Switzerland	ILCG +0.1 points	0.1%	0.0%
United Kingdom	ILCG +0.1 points	0.1%	0.0%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

ILCG49.8%
SNPG54.1%

Securities held

ILCG325
SNPG84

Asset class

ILCG: Equity
SNPG: Equity

Holdings

Only in ILCG263
In both62
Only in SNPG22

Only in ILCG

263 securities, 54.1% of ILCG by weight

Apple8.12%
Broadcom Inc4.92%
Amazon.com Inc4.21%
Advanced Micro Devices2.66%
Tesla Inc2.26%
Meta Platforms Class A1.59%
Palantir Technologies Class A1.32%
Intel Corporation0.99%
Crowdstrike Holdings Class A0.80%
Walmart0.69%
Costco Wholesale Corp0.63%
Amphenol Corp Class A0.63%
Arista Networks0.56%
Marvell Technology0.55%
Boeing0.44%
Western Digital Corp0.43%
Texas Instrument0.40%
Analog Devices0.35%
Oracle0.35%
Snowflake0.33%
Cadence Design Systems0.29%
Johnson Controls International PLC0.29%
Cloudflare Class A0.29%
Freeport Mcmoran Inc0.29%
Vertiv Holdings Class A0.28%
Dell Technologies Inc Class C0.28%
Motorola Solutions Inc0.26%
Howmet Aerospace0.26%
Deere0.25%
Sandisk0.25%
Datadog Inc Class A0.25%
Royal Caribbean Group0.25%
Ecolab0.25%
Cintas0.24%
Oreilly Automotive Inc0.23%
Aon PLC Class A0.22%
Doordash Class A0.22%
Airbnb Class A0.21%
Robinhood Markets Class A0.21%
Monster Beverage0.21%
Csx0.21%
Transdigm Group0.20%
Cencora0.20%
Applovin Class A0.20%
Starbucks Corp0.20%
Marathon Petroleum0.20%
Ww Grainger Inc0.19%
Bloom Energy Class A0.19%
Fastenal0.19%
Equinix Reit0.18%

Only in SNPG

22 securities, 15.2% of SNPG by weight

AbbVie Inc1.98%
Cisco Systems Inc1.81%
Amgen Inc1.42%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc1.40%
Coca-Cola Co1.27%
Morgan Stanley1.11%
Gilead Sciences Inc0.94%
Newmont Mining Corp0.93%
Booking Holdings Inc0.92%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd0.63%
Progressive Corp0.62%
Cme Group Inc0.51%
Johnson Controls International PLC0.49%
Boston Scientific Corp0.34%
Carnival Corp Ltd Npv0.30%
CBOE Holdings0.16%
Workday Inc-Class A0.14%
Allegion PLC0.07%
Fox Corp Class A0.06%
Fox Corp Class B0.05%
Spdr Portfolio S&P 500 Growt0.04%
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings0.04%

Weight gaps

All 62 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in ILCG and SNPG, widest gap first
Holding	More in ILCGMore in SNPG	ILCG	SNPG
NVIDIANVDA	ILCG +6.86 points	15.40%	8.54%
Micron TechnologyMU	SNPG +6.49 points	1.77%	8.26%
MicrosoftMSFT	SNPG +5.99 points	3.08%	9.07%
Eli LillyLLY	SNPG +5.72 points	3.66%	9.38%
Visa Class AV	SNPG +2.06 points	1.14%	3.20%
Mastercard Class AMA	SNPG +1.92 points	0.94%	2.86%
Caterpillar IncCAT	SNPG +1.86 points	0.51%	2.37%
Applied Material IncAMAT	SNPG +1.56 points	1.00%	2.56%
Lam ResearchLRCX	SNPG +1.50 points	0.97%	2.47%
NetflixNFLX	SNPG +1.30 points	0.84%	2.14%
Alphabet Class AGOOGL	SNPG +1.29 points	3.01%	4.30%
Ge VernovaGEV	SNPG +1.15 points	0.74%	1.89%
KlaKLAC	SNPG +1.04 points	0.67%	1.71%
Alphabet Class CGOOG	SNPG +1.03 points	2.43%	3.46%
Uber TechnologiesUBER	SNPG +0.99 points	0.11%	1.10%
WelltowerWELL	SNPG +0.84 points	0.55%	1.39%
American ExpressAXP	SNPG +0.79 points	0.15%	0.94%
Intuitive SurgicalISRG	SNPG +0.77 points	0.49%	1.26%
Marriott International Class AMAR	SNPG +0.60 points	0.11%	0.71%
TjxTJX	SNPG +0.51 points	0.19%	0.70%
Quanta Services IncPWR	SNPG +0.47 points	0.30%	0.77%
Palo Alto NetworksPANW	SNPG +0.41 points	0.96%	1.37%
Hilton Worldwide HoldingsHLT	SNPG +0.41 points	0.25%	0.66%
Lumentum HoldingsLITE	SNPG +0.38 points	0.24%	0.62%
S&P GlobalSPGI	SNPG +0.37 points	0.14%	0.51%
Ge AerospaceGE	SNPG +0.33 points	1.01%	1.34%
Bank of New York Mellon CorpBNY	SNPG +0.32 points	0.20%	0.52%
Seagate Technology Holdings PLCSTX	SNPG +0.31 points	0.47%	0.78%
Constellation Energy CorpCEG	SNPG +0.31 points	0.17%	0.48%
StrykerSYK	SNPG +0.25 points	0.10%	0.35%
CorningGLW	SNPG +0.24 points	0.32%	0.56%
Trane Technologies PLCTT	SNPG +0.24 points	0.15%	0.39%
EbayEBAY	SNPG +0.23 points	0.07%	0.30%
Te Connectivity PLCTEL	SNPG +0.22 points	0.13%	0.35%
CienaCIEN	SNPG +0.22 points	0.15%	0.37%
Comfort Systems UsaFIX	SNPG +0.22 points	0.14%	0.36%
Idexx LaboratoriesIDXX	SNPG +0.23 points	0.13%	0.36%
CoherentCOHR	SNPG +0.21 points	0.13%	0.34%
Expedia GroupEXPE	SNPG +0.21 points	0.06%	0.27%
ServicenowNOW	SNPG +0.20 points	0.35%	0.55%
United RentalsURI	SNPG +0.18 points	0.16%	0.34%
Ulta Beauty IncULTA	SNPG +0.18 points	0.05%	0.23%
Interactive Brokers Group Inc ClasIBKR	SNPG +0.17 points	0.11%	0.28%
FortinetFTNT	SNPG +0.17 points	0.27%	0.44%
Cummins IncCMI	SNPG +0.16 points	0.22%	0.38%
TapestryTPR	SNPG +0.14 points	0.05%	0.19%
Apollo Global ManagementAPO	SNPG +0.14 points	0.10%	0.24%
First SolarFSLR	SNPG +0.12 points	0.03%	0.15%
AutozoneAZO	SNPG +0.11 points	0.17%	0.28%
ResmedRMD	SNPG +0.10 points	0.06%	0.16%
Yum BrandsYUM	SNPG +0.09 points	0.09%	0.18%
AutodeskADSK	SNPG +0.08 points	0.17%	0.25%
Rockwell Automation IncROK	SNPG +0.07 points	0.16%	0.23%
Verisk AnalyticsVRSK	SNPG +0.07 points	0.05%	0.12%
Mettler ToledoMTD	SNPG +0.06 points	0.06%	0.12%
Las Vegas SandsLVS	SNPG +0.06 points	0.02%	0.08%
JabilJBL	SNPG +0.06 points	0.09%	0.15%
MsciMSCI	SNPG +0.06 points	0.14%	0.20%
Moodys CorpMCO	SNPG +0.05 points	0.24%	0.29%
Edwards LifesciencesEW	SNPG +0.04 points	0.17%	0.21%
Dexcom IncDXCM	SNPG +0.04 points	0.10%	0.14%
Take Two Interactive SoftwareTTWO	SNPG +0.03 points	0.11%	0.14%

All 325 ILCG holdings⁠All 85 SNPG holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

ILCG vs SNPG Cost

Overpaying SNPG vs ILCG

$2,288

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

ILCG 0.04%
$849
SNPG 0.15%
$3,137

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

ILCG 0.04%
SNPG 0.15%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	ILCG	SNPG	Overpaying
10	$73	$274	$201
20	$288	$1,071	$783
30	$849	$3,137	$2,288

Expense ratio

0.04%ILCG, cheaper
0.15%SNPG

ILCG0.04%SNPG0.15%

0.03%0.70%

Middle half of US Growth Index funds
Median 0.18%

ILCG 2nd cheapest of 35 funds

SNPG 16th cheapest of 35 funds

ILCG vs SNPG Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 30, 2026

Yield (12M): ILCG 0.44%; SNPG 0.48%, better
Payout (12M): ILCG $0.48; SNPG $0.27
Last payment: ILCG $0.14; SNPG $0.07
Ex-dividend: ILCG Sep 15, 2026; SNPG Sep 18, 2026
Paid on: ILCG Sep 18, 2026; SNPG Sep 25, 2026
Frequency: ILCG Quarterly; SNPG Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

ILCGQuarterly · 40 paymentsAll ILCG payments⁠

SNPGQuarterly · 16 paymentsAll SNPG payments⁠

ILCG vs SNPG Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

This chart needs five years of history for both funds.

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: ILCG 17.8%SNPG 15.4%, better
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: ILCG 1.06SNPG 1.18, better
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: ILCG −35.4%SNPG −21.7%since Nov 2022
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: ILCG 1.23SNPG 1.08; Market = 1

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