ETF comparison
SCHA vs VUG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHA and VUG would leave roughly 1.2% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHA | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandisk Corp/DE | 5.28% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 2 | Lumentum Holdings Inc | 1.29% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 3 | Symbotic Inc | 0.06% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | Venture Global Inc | 0.12% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in SCHA
1,701 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%
- EchoStar Corp 0.37%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.35%
Only in VUG
142 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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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/.
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.