ETF comparison
CALF vs SPY
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and SPY would leave roughly 0.4% 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
SPY is 50 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $496/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In CALF | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biogen Inc | 1.91% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 2 | EQT Corp | 1.93% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 3 | Expedia Group Inc | 2.47% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Omnicom Group Inc | 1.94% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Expand Energy Corp | 2.00% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Incyte Corp | 1.52% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | CF Industries Holdings Inc | 1.79% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Best Buy Co Inc | 1.71% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | APA Corp | 1.45% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Leidos Holdings Inc | 1.70% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | GoDaddy Inc | 1.73% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Gartner Inc | 1.24% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in CALF
184 total- Tenet Healthcare Corp 2.75%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Ovintiv Inc 1.79%
- HF Sinclair Corp 1.73%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.73%
- Docusign Inc 1.32%
- Sirius XM Holdings Inc 1.31%
- Lyft Inc 1.27%
- Versant Media Group Inc 1.23%
- Toll Brothers Inc 1.17%
Only in SPY
491 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
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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/.
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