ETF comparison
GSLC vs SMLF
Both Multi-Factor.
Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
40 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GSLC and SMLF would leave roughly 3.5% 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
GSLC is 6 bps cheaper than SMLF. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for SMLF.
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 GSLC vs SMLF.
Top shared holdings
40 shared in total| # | Holding | In GSLC | In SMLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TAPESTRY INC | 0.30% | 0.66% | 0.30% |
| 2 | NATERA INC | 0.26% | 0.62% | 0.26% |
| 3 | WILLIAMS SONOMA INC | 0.24% | 0.61% | 0.24% |
| 4 | EVERPURE INC | 0.22% | 0.40% | 0.22% |
| 5 | JABIL INC | 0.22% | 0.75% | 0.22% |
| 6 | REDDIT INC | 0.21% | 0.30% | 0.21% |
| 7 | RALPH LAUREN CORP | 0.20% | 0.33% | 0.20% |
| 8 | EMCOR GROUP INC | 0.19% | 0.95% | 0.19% |
| 9 | US FOODS HOLDING CORP | 0.19% | 0.24% | 0.19% |
| 10 | CASEY'S GENERAL STORES INC | 0.10% | 0.32% | 0.10% |
| 11 | EXPAND ENERGY CORP | 0.10% | 0.31% | 0.10% |
| 12 | CURTISS-WRIGHT CORP | 0.09% | 0.42% | 0.09% |
Only in GSLC
396 total- NVIDIA CORP 7.87%
- APPLE INC 7.00%
- MICROSOFT CORP 4.87%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.78%
- ALPHABET INC 3.31%
- BROADCOM INC 2.84%
- META PLATFORMS INC 2.14%
- ALPHABET INC 1.89%
- TESLA INC 1.28%
- ELI LILLY & COMPANY 1.17%
Only in SMLF
852 total- Flex Ltd. 0.78%
- Mueller Industries, Inc. 0.59%
- Reliance, Inc. 0.56%
- Popular, Inc. 0.54%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. 0.51%
- Guardant Health, Inc. 0.49%
- Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. 0.45%
- Medpace Holdings, Inc. 0.45%
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. 0.44%
- IDACORP, Inc. 0.44%
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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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