ETF comparison
CALF vs VB
Both US Small Cap.
Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
140 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and VB would leave roughly 8.0% 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
VB is 56 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $560/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
140 shared in total| # | Holding | In CALF | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expand Energy Corp | 2.00% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 2 | Omnicom Group Inc | 1.94% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 3 | Incyte Corp | 1.52% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | CF Industries Holdings Inc | 1.79% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 5 | EQT Corp | 1.93% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Tenet Healthcare Corp | 2.75% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | Toll Brothers Inc | 1.17% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 8 | Best Buy Co Inc | 1.71% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 9 | Ovintiv Inc | 1.79% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 10 | Deckers Outdoor Corp | 0.90% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 11 | Exelixis Inc | 0.89% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | Leidos Holdings Inc | 1.70% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in CALF
58 total- Expedia Group Inc 2.47%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Biogen Inc 1.91%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.73%
- Tutor Perini Corp 0.76%
- Amdocs Ltd 0.65%
- Scorpio Tankers Inc 0.44%
- Gulfport Energy Corp 0.34%
- Talos Energy Inc 0.32%
- Mobileye Global Inc 0.31%
Only in VB
1,169 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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- CALF vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 6.4%
- CALF vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 6.2%
- CALF vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 6.1%
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- VB vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 7.2%
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- VB vs VLUE · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 6.7%
- VB vs SCHX · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF 6.7%
- VB vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 6.0%
- VB vs IVE · iShares S&P 500 Value ETF 5.9%
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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