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ETF comparison

MDY vs VB

US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.

State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
43.6 %

397 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MDY and VB would leave roughly 43.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

MDY unmatched 56.4% Shared 43.6% VB unmatched 56.1%

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.

In MDY only
4 positions
Shared
397 positions
In VB only
912 positions

Side by side

MDY

State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust

State Street · US Mid Cap

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.23%
Net assets
$25.22B
TTM yield
1.06%
Top-10 conc.
7.2%
VB

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$175.77B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.27%
Top-10 conc.
4.3%

Sub-score comparison

77
Cost
97
88
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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MDY sub-score VB

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VB is 20 bps cheaper than MDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for MDY.

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 MDY vs VB.

Top shared holdings

397 shared in total
# Holding In MDY In VB Overlap
1 Twilio Inc. Class A 1.30% 0.38% 0.38%
2 MKS Inc. 0.54% 0.37% 0.37%
3 Carpenter Technology Corporation 0.55% 0.35% 0.35%
4 Curtiss-Wright Corporation 0.58% 0.34% 0.34%
5 Entegris Inc. 0.73% 0.33% 0.33%
6 nVent Electric plc 0.79% 0.33% 0.33%
7 ATI Inc 0.75% 0.33% 0.33%
8 TechnipFMC plc 0.77% 0.32% 0.32%
9 MasTec Inc. 0.39% 0.32% 0.32%
10 MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. 0.64% 0.32% 0.32%
11 Woodward Inc. 0.56% 0.31% 0.31%
12 Sterling Infrastructure Inc. 0.47% 0.30% 0.30%

Only in MDY

4 total
  • U.S. Dollar 0.89%
  • SharkNinja Inc. 0.44%
  • Autoliv Inc. 0.21%
  • LivaNova Plc 0.12%

Only in VB

912 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%
  • NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
  • Flex Ltd 0.36%
  • Tapestry Inc 0.36%
  • Casey's General Stores Inc 0.36%

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.