ETF comparison
KRE vs VFH
Both Financials.
State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
143 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KRE and VFH would leave roughly 7.0% 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 KRE. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for KRE.
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 KRE vs VFH.
Top shared holdings
143 shared in total| # | Holding | In KRE | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truist Financial Corp | 1.47% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 2 | Huntington Bancshares Inc/OH | 1.46% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 3 | M&T Bank Corp | 1.48% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 4 | Citizens Financial Group Inc | 1.49% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 5 | Regions Financial Corp | 1.45% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 6 | East West Bancorp Inc | 1.47% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 7 | Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc | 1.47% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | First Horizon Corp | 1.47% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | Webster Financial Corp | 1.47% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | SOUTHSTATE BANK CORP | 1.47% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 11 | Wintrust Financial Corp | 1.50% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 12 | Popular Inc | 1.52% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in KRE
8 total- TFS Financial Corp 0.35%
- Mechanics Bancorp 0.26%
- Northrim BanCorp Inc 0.16%
- California BanCorp 0.14%
- Third Coast Bancshares Inc 0.09%
- Republic Bancorp Inc/KY 0.08%
- Columbia Financial Inc 0.07%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.01%
Only in VFH
272 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 9.30%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 8.36%
- Mastercard Inc 5.29%
- Visa Inc 4.21%
- Bank of America Corp 4.01%
- Wells Fargo & Co 3.13%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 2.97%
- Morgan Stanley 2.39%
- Citigroup Inc 2.29%
- American Express Co 2.06%
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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.