IMCG vs SNPG: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF

IMCGANYSE Arca

Xtrackers S&P 500 Growth Scored & Screened ETF

SNPGBCboe

Overlap

8.9%by weight

Expense ratio

IMCG −0.09pt a year

IMCG0.06%SNPG0.15%

Avg volume · 30D

IMCG 92.0×the volume

IMCG132KSNPG1.44K

3Y return · a year

SNPG +2.7pt

IMCG+21.0%SNPG+23.7%

IMCG vs SNPG Performance

Oct 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026

+14.0%IMCG+8.2%SNPG

Expense ratio: IMCG 0.06%, better; SNPG 0.15%
Fund size: IMCG $4.04B; SNPG $14M
1Y total return: IMCG +14.0%, better; SNPG +8.2%
Yield (12M): IMCG 0.67%, better; SNPG 0.48%
Holdings: IMCG 262; SNPG 85
Avg volume (30D): IMCG 132K sh, better; SNPG 1.44K sh
NAV per share: IMCG $93.24; SNPG $56.79
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for IMCG, SNPG, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	IMCG	SNPG
Cost30% weight	A78Higher	B56
Mission25% weight	A95	A95
Risk15% weight	A78Higher	B64
Tradability15% weight	B61Higher	D30
Holdings10% weight	A75Higher	C47
Durability5% weight	B66Higher	F16

Rank among US Growth Index funds

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Same Category. IMCG 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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IMCG 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 2ASCHGSchwab U.S. Large-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

IMCGAiShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF

SNPGBXtrackers S&P 500 Growth Scored & Screened ETF

In short

IMCG Growth investing usually means megacaps. IMCG works the middle of the market instead: roughly 300 mid-cap growth names, indexed since 2004, for six basis points a year.

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

IMCG The Fund seeks to track an index of U.S. mid-capitalization equities with growth characteristics. Its strategy uses representative sampling and generally invests at least 80% of assets in securities from the Underlying Index.

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

IMCG 0.06% a year, one third of the 0.18% median for its growth-fund peer group. Mid-cap indexing at large-cap-index prices.
The growth leaderboard is stacked with large-cap funds (VUG, SCHG, SPYG, VONG). IMCG covers the middle instead, holding about 300 mid-cap growth names.
Sticks close to the Morningstar mid-cap growth index it follows, one of the tighter tracking jobs in its peer group.
Running since 2004 under the iShares roof, with a multi-billion-dollar asset base behind it.

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

IMCG Moderately traded rather than heavily traded, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the megacap growth ETFs sitting beside it in the category.
This is a size-and-style bet. Mid-cap growth companies tend to move more sharply than the broad market, in both directions.
Distributions land quarterly, but a growth screen is not built around income.

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 IMCG profile⁠

Full SNPG profile⁠

IMCG vs SNPG Holdings

How IMCG and SNPG differ

Overlap by weight

8.9%

Shared holdings make up 17.7% of IMCG and 9.0% of SNPG.

Level by level

Holdings32 in both8.9%
Sector11 Sectors62.6%
Countryby domicile98.5%
Asset classEquity100%

Sector

Sector weights in IMCG and SNPG, widest gap first
Sector	More in IMCGMore in SNPG	IMCG	SNPG
Technology	SNPG +24.1 points	23.3%	47.4%
Industrials	IMCG +14.0 points	23.0%	9.0%
Communication	SNPG +9.0 points	2.2%	11.2%
Consumer Discretionary	IMCG +5.9 points	10.6%	4.7%
Materials	IMCG +5.5 points	6.4%	0.9%
Health Care	SNPG +4.3 points	8.9%	13.2%
Energy	IMCG +3.5 points	3.5%	0.0%
Utilities	IMCG +2.7 points	3.1%	0.4%
Real Estate	IMCG +2.3 points	3.6%	1.3%
Consumer Staples	IMCG +1.8 points	2.9%	1.1%
Financials	IMCG +1.7 points	12.5%	10.8%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in IMCG and SNPG, widest gap first
Country	More in IMCGMore in SNPG	IMCG	SNPG
United States	SNPG +1.5 points	98.2%	99.7%
Other countries (4)	IMCG +1.4 points	1.8%	0.3%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

IMCG12.4%
SNPG54.1%

Securities held

IMCG259
SNPG84

Asset class

IMCG: Equity
SNPG: Equity

Holdings

Only in IMCG227
In both32
Only in SNPG52

Only in IMCG

227 securities, 82.1% of IMCG by weight

Snowflake1.52%
Cloudflare Class A1.35%
Johnson Controls International PLC1.30%
Dell Technologies Inc Class C1.30%
Freeport Mcmoran Inc1.29%
Datadog Inc Class A1.20%
Motorola Solutions Inc1.11%
Royal Caribbean Group1.05%
Ecolab1.03%
Cintas1.02%
Oreilly Automotive Inc0.97%
Robinhood Markets Class A0.97%
Aon PLC Class A0.92%
Doordash Class A0.92%
Airbnb Class A0.91%
Csx0.89%
Transdigm Group0.88%
Bloom Energy Class A0.87%
Monster Beverage0.86%
Cencora0.85%
Ww Grainger Inc0.82%
Natera0.81%
Marathon Petroleum0.80%
Fastenal0.79%
Ametek Inc0.79%
Emerson Electric0.79%
Monolithic Power Systems Inc0.76%
Keysight Technologies0.76%
Baker Hughes Class A0.73%
Ross Stores Inc0.72%
Carvana Class A0.66%
Sherwin Williams0.66%
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologie0.65%
Vistra0.64%
Veeva Systems Class A0.63%
Teradyne0.63%
Nasdaq Inc0.63%
Astera Labs0.61%
Nxp Semiconductors NV0.60%
Microchip Technology Inc0.60%
Everpure Inc Class A0.59%
Digital Realty Trust Reit0.59%
Ventas Reit0.58%
Illinois Tool Inc0.57%
Arthur J Gallagher0.56%
Block Class A0.56%
Chipotle Mexican Grill0.53%
Nucor0.53%
Williams0.52%
Marsh0.48%

Only in SNPG

52 securities, 90.6% of SNPG by weight

Lilly (Eli) & Co9.38%
Microsoft Corp9.07%
NVIDIA Corp8.54%
Micron Technology8.26%
Alphabet Class A4.30%
Alphabet Class C3.46%
Visa Inc-Class A Shares3.20%
Mastercard Inc-Class A2.86%
Applied Materials Inc2.56%
Lam Research Corp2.47%
Caterpillar Inc2.37%
Netflix Inc2.14%
AbbVie Inc1.98%
GE Vernova1.89%
Cisco Systems Inc1.81%
Kla-Tencor Corp1.71%
Amgen Inc1.42%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc1.40%
Welltower Inc1.39%
Palo Alto Networks1.37%
General Electric Co1.34%
Coca-Cola Co1.27%
Intuitive Surgical Inc1.26%
Morgan Stanley1.11%
Uber Technologies Inc1.10%
Gilead Sciences Inc0.94%
American Express Co0.94%
Newmont Mining Corp0.93%
Booking Holdings Inc0.92%
Seagate Technology0.78%
Quanta Services Inc0.77%
Marriott International Inc0.71%
TJX Companies0.70%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd0.63%
Progressive Corp0.62%
Corning Inc0.56%
ServiceNow Inc0.55%
S&P Global0.51%
Cme Group Inc0.51%
Johnson Controls International PLC0.49%
Constellation Energy Corp0.48%
Trane Technologies Plc0.39%
Stryker0.35%
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%

Weight gaps

All 32 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in IMCG and SNPG, widest gap first
Holding	More in IMCGMore in SNPG	IMCG	SNPG
FortinetFTNT	IMCG +0.74 points	1.18%	0.44%
Moodys CorpMCO	IMCG +0.71 points	1.00%	0.29%
Cummins IncCMI	IMCG +0.59 points	0.97%	0.38%
Edwards LifesciencesEW	IMCG +0.50 points	0.71%	0.21%
Lumentum HoldingsLITE	IMCG +0.48 points	1.10%	0.62%
Rockwell Automation IncROK	IMCG +0.45 points	0.68%	0.23%
AutodeskADSK	IMCG +0.45 points	0.70%	0.25%
AutozoneAZO	IMCG +0.42 points	0.70%	0.28%
Hilton Worldwide HoldingsHLT	IMCG +0.41 points	1.07%	0.66%
MsciMSCI	IMCG +0.40 points	0.60%	0.20%
United RentalsURI	IMCG +0.35 points	0.69%	0.34%
Bank of New York Mellon CorpBNY	IMCG +0.33 points	0.85%	0.52%
Take Two Interactive SoftwareTTWO	IMCG +0.32 points	0.46%	0.14%
CienaCIEN	IMCG +0.30 points	0.67%	0.37%
Dexcom IncDXCM	IMCG +0.27 points	0.41%	0.14%
JabilJBL	IMCG +0.26 points	0.41%	0.15%
CoherentCOHR	IMCG +0.25 points	0.59%	0.34%
Comfort Systems UsaFIX	IMCG +0.25 points	0.61%	0.36%
Idexx LaboratoriesIDXX	IMCG +0.23 points	0.59%	0.36%
Interactive Brokers Group Inc ClasIBKR	IMCG +0.21 points	0.49%	0.28%
Apollo Global ManagementAPO	IMCG +0.21 points	0.45%	0.24%
Te Connectivity PLCTEL	IMCG +0.20 points	0.55%	0.35%
Yum BrandsYUM	IMCG +0.18 points	0.36%	0.18%
Mettler ToledoMTD	IMCG +0.14 points	0.26%	0.12%
ResmedRMD	IMCG +0.11 points	0.27%	0.16%
Verisk AnalyticsVRSK	IMCG +0.08 points	0.20%	0.12%
Expedia GroupEXPE	SNPG +0.03 points	0.24%	0.27%
TapestryTPR	IMCG +0.02 points	0.21%	0.19%
First SolarFSLR	SNPG +0.02 points	0.13%	0.15%
EbayEBAY	SNPG +0.02 points	0.28%	0.30%
Ulta Beauty IncULTA	SNPG +0.01 points	0.22%	0.23%
Las Vegas SandsLVS	Same weight	0.08%	0.08%

All 259 IMCG 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.

IMCG vs SNPG Cost

Overpaying SNPG vs IMCG

$1,867

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

IMCG 0.06%
$1,270
SNPG 0.15%
$3,137

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

IMCG 0.06%
SNPG 0.15%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	IMCG	SNPG	Overpaying
10	$110	$274	$164
20	$432	$1,071	$639
30	$1,270	$3,137	$1,867

Expense ratio

0.06%IMCG, cheaper
0.15%SNPG

IMCG0.06%SNPG0.15%

0.03%0.70%

Middle half of US Growth Index funds
Median 0.18%

IMCG 9th cheapest of 35 funds

SNPG 16th cheapest of 35 funds

IMCG vs SNPG Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 30, 2026

Yield (12M): IMCG 0.67%, better; SNPG 0.48%
Payout (12M): IMCG $0.62; SNPG $0.27
Last payment: IMCG $0.19; SNPG $0.07
Ex-dividend: IMCG Sep 15, 2026; SNPG Sep 18, 2026
Paid on: IMCG Sep 18, 2026; SNPG Sep 25, 2026
Frequency: IMCG Quarterly; SNPG Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

IMCGQuarterly · 39 paymentsAll IMCG payments⁠

SNPGQuarterly · 16 paymentsAll SNPG payments⁠

IMCG vs SNPG Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

This chart needs five years of history for both funds.

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: IMCG 16.6%SNPG 15.4%, better
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: IMCG 0.97SNPG 1.18, better
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: IMCG −35.1%SNPG −21.7%since Nov 2022
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: IMCG 1.14SNPG 1.08; Market = 1

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IMCG vs SNPG

In short

Stated mandate

Why people hold it

Worth knowing

How IMCG and SNPG differ

Level by level

Sector

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Concentration

Asset class

Holdings

Only in IMCG

Only in SNPG

Weight gaps

Cost over time

Year by year

Distribution history

Fall from peak · 5 years

Risk facts

The best growth ETF is the cheap one on the index you want

The cheap large-cap growth pick is the S&P 500 list

How IMCG and SNPG differ

Level by level

Sector

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Concentration

Asset class

Holdings

Only in IMCG

Only in SNPG

Weight gaps