ETF comparison
KBE vs VFH
Both Financials.
State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
101 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KBE and VFH would leave roughly 16.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VFH is 26 bps cheaper than KBE. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for KBE.
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 KBE vs VFH.
Top shared holdings
101 shared in total| # | Holding | In KBE | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Citigroup Inc | 1.03% | 2.29% | 1.03% |
| 2 | Wells Fargo & Co | 1.03% | 3.13% | 1.03% |
| 3 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.02% | 9.30% | 1.02% |
| 4 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp/The | 1.01% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 5 | PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The | 1.01% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 6 | Bank of America Corp | 1.00% | 4.01% | 1.00% |
| 7 | US Bancorp | 0.99% | 1.02% | 0.99% |
| 8 | Truist Financial Corp | 1.00% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 9 | Apollo Global Management Inc | 1.04% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 10 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 1.02% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 11 | Huntington Bancshares Inc/OH | 0.99% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 12 | M&T Bank Corp | 1.01% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
Only in KBE
1 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.03%
Only in VFH
314 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 8.36%
- Mastercard Inc 5.29%
- Visa Inc 4.21%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 2.97%
- Morgan Stanley 2.39%
- American Express Co 2.06%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 1.97%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 1.88%
- S&P Global Inc 1.66%
- Chubb Ltd 1.55%
Open KBE or VFH at a brokerage
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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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