ETF comparison
IVV vs SPY
Both US Large Cap.
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
468 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IVV and SPY would leave roughly 89.7% 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
IVV is 6 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $64/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 IVV vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
468 shared in total| # | Holding | In IVV | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.51% | 8.50% | 7.51% |
| 2 | Apple, Inc. | 6.58% | 7.32% | 6.58% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.29% | 5.77% | 4.29% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 3.61% | 3.71% | 3.61% |
| 5 | Alphabet, Inc. | 3.25% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 6 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.77% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | Alphabet, Inc. | 2.59% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.92% | 2.41% | 1.92% |
| 9 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 2.02% | 1.82% | 1.82% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 1.83% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.47% | 1.55% | 1.47% |
| 12 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.42% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
Only in IVV
36 total- Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.88%
- Linde plc 0.37%
- Seagate Technology Holdings plc 0.34%
- Eaton Corp. plc 0.26%
- Chubb Ltd. 0.19%
- Trane Technologies plc 0.17%
- Medtronic plc 0.16%
- Johnson Controls International plc 0.14%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. 0.12%
- Accenture plc 0.12%
Only in SPY
37 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- LINDE PLC 0.33%
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS 0.29%
- EATON CORP PLC 0.25%
- ACCENTURE PLC CL A 0.18%
- CHUBB LTD 0.17%
- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.17%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.15%
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATION 0.14%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORP A 0.13%
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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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