ETF comparison
NOBL vs VB
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NOBL and VB would leave roughly 2.8% 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
VB is 32 bps cheaper than NOBL. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/yr more in fees for NOBL.
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Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In NOBL | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atmos Energy Corp. | 1.36% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | 1.43% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 3 | Essex Property Trust, Inc. | 1.58% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Genuine Parts Co. | 1.26% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 5 | Nordson Corp. | 1.49% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 6 | Albemarle Corp. | 1.30% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. | 1.53% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | Pentair plc | 1.15% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 9 | Clorox Co. (The) | 1.32% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | JM Smucker Co. (The) | 1.58% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | Federal Realty Investment Trust | 1.58% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | Franklin Resources, Inc. | 1.67% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in NOBL
52 total- Nucor Corp. 1.76%
- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. 1.72%
- International Business Machines Corp. 1.71%
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. 1.67%
- Colgate-Palmolive Co. 1.61%
- Caterpillar, Inc. 1.60%
- Automatic Data Processing, Inc. 1.60%
- General Dynamics Corp. 1.56%
- AbbVie, Inc. 1.56%
- Coca-Cola Co. (The) 1.55%
Only in VB
1,291 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%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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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/.
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