ETF comparison
CALF vs SCHD
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
10 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and SCHD would leave roughly 1.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHD is 53 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/yr more in fees for CALF.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with CALF vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
10 shared in total| # | Holding | In CALF | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best Buy Co Inc | 1.71% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 2 | APA Corp | 1.45% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 3 | HF Sinclair Corp | 1.73% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 4 | Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Co | 0.83% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 5 | Macy's Inc | 0.99% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 6 | Korn Ferry | 0.31% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Marzetti Company/The | 0.23% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | Flowers Foods Inc | 0.26% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Buckle Inc/The | 0.20% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Ethan Allen Interiors Inc | 0.04% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in CALF
188 total- Tenet Healthcare Corp 2.75%
- Expedia Group Inc 2.47%
- Expand Energy Corp 2.00%
- Omnicom Group Inc 1.94%
- EQT Corp 1.93%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Biogen Inc 1.91%
- Ovintiv Inc 1.79%
- CF Industries Holdings Inc 1.79%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.73%
Only in SCHD
89 total- QUALCOMM Inc 6.74%
- Texas Instruments Inc 5.90%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.09%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 3.96%
- Merck & Co Inc 3.86%
- Chevron Corp 3.83%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.65%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.55%
- ConocoPhillips 3.51%
- Amgen Inc 3.47%
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- SCHD vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 1.3%
- SCHD vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 1.2%
- SCHD vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 1.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.