ETF comparison
CALF vs VBK
Both US Small Cap.
Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and VBK would leave roughly 6.4% 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
VBK is 54 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $540/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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In CALF | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Incyte Corp | 1.52% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 2 | Deckers Outdoor Corp | 0.90% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 3 | Exelixis Inc | 0.89% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | GoDaddy Inc | 1.73% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 5 | BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc | 0.79% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | Match Group Inc | 1.12% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Docusign Inc | 1.32% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Maplebear Inc | 0.92% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 9 | EQT Corp | 1.93% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 10 | InterDigital Inc | 0.53% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 11 | A O Smith Corp | 0.64% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 12 | Etsy Inc | 0.77% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in CALF
147 total- Tenet Healthcare Corp 2.75%
- Expedia Group Inc 2.47%
- Expand Energy Corp 2.00%
- Omnicom Group Inc 1.94%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Biogen Inc 1.91%
- Ovintiv Inc 1.79%
- CF Industries Holdings Inc 1.79%
- HF Sinclair Corp 1.73%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.73%
Only in VBK
492 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.05%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Twilio Inc 0.88%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.83%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
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- CALF vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 1.6%
- CALF vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 1.5%
- CALF vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 1.4%
- CALF vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 1.1%
More comparisons with VBK
- VBK vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 5.6%
- VBK vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 5.6%
- VBK vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 5.5%
- VBK vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 5.2%
- VBK vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 5.1%
- VBK vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 4.7%
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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