ETF comparison
GLD vs VTI
Gold vs US Total Market.
SPDR Gold Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GLD and VTI would leave roughly 0.0% 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.
Holdings data for GLD covers 0.0% of fund weight. The remainder lacks matchable identifiers in the N-PORT filing.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VTI is 37 bps cheaper than GLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $370/yr more in fees for GLD.
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 GLD vs VTI.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in GLD
0 totalEvery GLD position is also held by VTI.
Only in VTI
3,480 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.42%
- Apple Inc 5.94%
- Microsoft Corp 4.38%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.21%
- Alphabet Inc 2.67%
- Broadcom Inc 2.34%
- Alphabet Inc 2.11%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.00%
- Tesla Inc 1.67%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.37%
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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/.
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.