ETF comparison
SCHA vs VBK
Both US Small Cap.
Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
382 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHA and VBK would leave roughly 36.8% 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
SCHA is 2 bps cheaper than VBK. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VBK.
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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
382 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHA | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Revolution Medicines Inc | 0.65% | 1.06% | 0.65% |
| 2 | Sterling Infrastructure Inc | 0.56% | 0.69% | 0.56% |
| 3 | ATI Inc | 0.50% | 0.76% | 0.50% |
| 4 | MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc | 0.50% | 0.73% | 0.50% |
| 5 | Nextpower Inc | 0.49% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 6 | MKS Inc | 0.46% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 7 | Coeur Mining Inc | 0.42% | 0.43% | 0.42% |
| 8 | TTM Technologies Inc | 0.38% | 0.55% | 0.38% |
| 9 | Guardant Health Inc | 0.35% | 0.53% | 0.35% |
| 10 | SiTime Corp | 0.33% | 0.47% | 0.33% |
| 11 | Rambus Inc | 0.33% | 0.40% | 0.33% |
| 12 | Dycom Industries Inc | 0.32% | 0.43% | 0.32% |
Only in SCHA
1,323 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 5.28%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 1.29%
- Mueller Industries Inc 0.30%
- Rocket Cos Inc 0.30%
- New York Times Co/The 0.26%
- Viasat Inc 0.23%
- Valmont Industries Inc 0.22%
- Moog Inc 0.22%
- Wintrust Financial Corp 0.21%
- Ryder System Inc 0.21%
Only in VBK
161 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.05%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Twilio Inc 0.88%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.83%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
- Entegris Inc 0.77%
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- SCHA vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 34.0%
- SCHA vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 33.9%
- SCHA vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 32.4%
- SCHA vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 32.4%
- SCHA vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 32.3%
More comparisons with VBK
- VBK vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 35.2%
- VBK vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 29.6%
- VBK vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 27.6%
- VBK vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 25.0%
- VBK vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 24.8%
- VBK vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 20.7%
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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