ETF comparison
KRE vs VFH
Both Financials.
State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
147 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KRE and VFH would leave roughly 7.3% 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 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
147 shared in total| # | Holding | In KRE | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truist Financial Corp | 1.27% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 2 | M&T Bank Corp | 1.34% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 3 | Huntington Bancshares Inc/OH | 1.33% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 4 | Citizens Financial Group Inc | 1.36% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 5 | Regions Financial Corp | 1.34% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 6 | East West Bancorp Inc | 1.27% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc | 1.37% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | First Horizon Corp | 1.31% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | Webster Financial Corp | 1.34% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | Wintrust Financial Corp | 1.31% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 11 | UMB Financial Corp | 1.37% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 12 | Popular Inc | 1.33% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in KRE
14 total- Central BanCo Inc 0.53%
- TFS Financial Corp 0.43%
- Mechanics Bancorp 0.23%
- Southern First Bancshares Inc 0.23%
- Red River Bancshares Inc 0.20%
- Republic Bancorp Inc/KY 0.20%
- Columbia Financial Inc 0.19%
- Community West Bancshares 0.16%
- Capital City Bank Group Inc 0.14%
- California BanCorp 0.12%
Only in VFH
264 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 9.15%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 7.85%
- Mastercard Inc 5.03%
- Bank of America Corp 4.25%
- Visa Inc 4.17%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 3.51%
- Morgan Stanley 2.97%
- Wells Fargo & Co 2.93%
- Citigroup Inc 2.56%
- American Express Co 2.10%
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- KRE vs IXG · iShares Global Financials ETF 1.3%
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- VFH vs FNCL · Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF 93.1%
- VFH vs XLF · State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF 82.0%
- VFH vs IYG · iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF 74.4%
- VFH vs IXG · iShares Global Financials ETF 50.6%
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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