ETF comparison
SCHA vs SPY
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHA and SPY would leave roughly 0.5% 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
SCHA is 6 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $64/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SCHA vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHA | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandisk Corp/DE | 5.28% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 2 | Lumentum Holdings Inc | 1.29% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | EchoStar Corp | 0.37% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in SCHA
1,702 total- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.65%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.56%
- ATI Inc 0.50%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.50%
- Nextpower Inc 0.49%
- MKS Inc 0.46%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.42%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.38%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.35%
- SiTime Corp 0.33%
Only in SPY
502 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
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- SCHA vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 61.3%
- SCHA vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 56.1%
- SCHA vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 50.5%
- SCHA vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 46.0%
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- SPY vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 0.4%
- SPY vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 0.3%
- SPY vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
- SPY vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.1%
- SPY vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.1%
- SPY vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 0.1%
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.