ETF comparison
Side-by-side comparison for any two funds in the catalog — holdings overlap (weighted by ISIN/CUSIP), expense difference, and sub-score deltas. Pick a pair below, or jump to one of the matchups people most often compare.
Compare any two funds
8,763 pre-built pair pages are in the catalog. Pick any two funds and we'll jump straight to the matchup — pairs without a pre-built page open in the overlap analyzer instead.
Popular comparisons
The matchups Bogleheads ask about mostUS Large Cap vs US Total Market
same fee
US Large Cap
SPYM 1 bps cheaper
US Total Market
same fee
International Total
VXUS 2 bps cheaper
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap
VOO 15 bps cheaper
Dividend
VYM 2 bps cheaper
International Developed
VEA 4 bps cheaper
US Aggregate Bond
same fee
International Emerging
VWO 3 bps cheaper
Near-substitutes & tax-loss-harvesting partners
Same category, ≥80% holdings overlap. Pairs where one fund largely duplicates the other — useful for tax-loss harvesting (sell one, buy the other, keep economic exposure) or for picking the cheaper option among effectively identical funds.
| Pair | Overlap |
|---|---|
| EEM vs IEMG | 87.1% |
| HYG vs HYLB | 84.7% |
| FLIN vs INDA | 86.9% |
| HYG vs USHY | 88.3% |
| EWJ vs FLJP | 81.7% |
| GPIQ vs QQQI | 95.2% |
| GPIX vs SPYI | 92.1% |
| GPIX vs XYLD | 88.3% |
| GPIQ vs QYLD | 85.4% |
| BBJP vs EWJ | 91.1% |
| IYR vs SCHH | 86.4% |
| IYE vs XLE | 88.0% |
| IDU vs XLU | 86.4% |
| IYG vs XLF | 83.9% |
| FUTY vs IDU | 90.8% |
| FENY vs IYE | 90.2% |
| FREL vs IYR | 85.6% |
| IDU vs VPU | 90.2% |
| BBAX vs EPP | 90.0% |
| IYE vs VDE | 89.1% |
Biggest in-category cost gaps
Same category, partial overlap (30–80%), meaningfully different expense ratios. The funds aren't perfect substitutes, but the cost gap is large enough to matter when choosing between them.
| Pair | Overlap |
|---|---|
| AAXJ vs SCHE | 67.1% |
| AAXJ vs VWO | 60.2% |
| EEM vs SCHE | 73.7% |
| EEM vs VWO | 68.9% |
| AAXJ vs SPEM | 53.3% |
| EEM vs SPEM | 63.1% |
| EPI vs FLIN | 65.3% |
| AAXJ vs IEMG | 70.6% |
| PEY vs SPYD | 31.9% |
| FVD vs VYM | 30.6% |
| FBCG vs VUG | 62.6% |
| EWT vs SCHE | 30.9% |
Looking for substitutes for a specific fund? Open itscatalog page— each fund links to its closest-overlap matches and to same-category alternates ranked by composite score.
Overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) across positions matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology lives at/methodology/.