ETF comparison
KBE vs VFH
Both Financials.
State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
103 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KBE and VFH would leave roughly 16.2% 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
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
103 shared in total| # | Holding | In KBE | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US Bancorp | 0.99% | 1.03% | 0.99% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.99% | 9.15% | 0.99% |
| 3 | PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The | 0.99% | 1.04% | 0.99% |
| 4 | Citigroup Inc | 0.98% | 2.56% | 0.98% |
| 5 | Bank of America Corp | 0.97% | 4.25% | 0.97% |
| 6 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp/The | 0.97% | 1.15% | 0.97% |
| 7 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.94% | 2.93% | 0.94% |
| 8 | Truist Financial Corp | 0.93% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 9 | Apollo Global Management Inc | 0.84% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 10 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 1.00% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 11 | M&T Bank Corp | 0.99% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | Huntington Bancshares Inc/OH | 0.98% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in KBE
0 totalEvery KBE position is also held by VFH.
Only in VFH
308 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 7.85%
- Mastercard Inc 5.03%
- Visa Inc 4.17%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 3.51%
- Morgan Stanley 2.97%
- American Express Co 2.10%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 1.86%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 1.77%
- S&P Global Inc 1.58%
- Capital One Financial Corp 1.44%
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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/.
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.