ETF comparison
JAVA vs VB
US Value vs US Small Cap.
JPMorgan Active Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
32 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JAVA and VB would leave roughly 4.1% 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 41 bps cheaper than JAVA. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for JAVA.
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 JAVA vs VB.
Top shared holdings
32 shared in total| # | Holding | In JAVA | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TD SYNNEX Corp. | 0.42% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 2 | Essex Property Trust, Inc. | 0.37% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 3 | Performance Food Group Co. | 0.74% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 4 | EQT Corp. | 0.68% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 5 | Ball Corp. | 0.69% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. | 0.37% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. | 0.28% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 8 | Albemarle Corp. | 0.47% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | Affirm Holdings, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.26% | 0.19% |
| 10 | CDW Corp. | 0.17% | 0.22% | 0.17% |
| 11 | Toast, Inc. | 0.60% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 12 | UDR, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in JAVA
127 total- Amazon.com, Inc. 6.04%
- Microsoft Corp. 3.19%
- Apple, Inc. 2.60%
- Wells Fargo & Co. 2.59%
- Bank of America Corp. 2.23%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.86%
- AbbVie, Inc. 1.64%
- UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.48%
- Walt Disney Co. (The) 1.45%
- Charles Schwab Corp. (The) 1.42%
Only in VB
1,277 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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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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