ETF comparison
SCHB vs SMLF
US Total Market vs Multi-Factor.
Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
825 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHB and SMLF would leave roughly 6.9% 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
SCHB is 12 bps cheaper than SMLF. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SMLF.
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 SCHB vs SMLF.
Top shared holdings
825 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHB | In SMLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flex Ltd | 0.08% | 0.78% | 0.08% |
| 2 | Astera Labs Inc | 0.06% | 0.70% | 0.06% |
| 3 | Interactive Brokers Group Inc | 0.05% | 0.83% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Jabil Inc | 0.05% | 0.75% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd | 0.05% | 0.51% | 0.05% |
| 6 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.05% | 0.95% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Natera Inc | 0.04% | 0.62% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Revolution Medicines Inc | 0.04% | 0.47% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Tapestry Inc | 0.04% | 0.66% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.04% | 0.32% | 0.04% |
| 11 | AST SpaceMobile Inc | 0.04% | 0.19% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.04% | 0.42% | 0.04% |
Only in SCHB
1,580 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.02%
- Apple Inc 6.26%
- Microsoft Corp 4.57%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.62%
- Alphabet Inc 3.03%
- Broadcom Inc 2.90%
- Alphabet Inc 2.41%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.89%
- Tesla Inc 1.68%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.49%
Only in SMLF
67 total- DuPont de Nemours, Inc. 0.33%
- XP, Inc. 0.26%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.26%
- Fedex Freight Holding Co., Inc. 0.21%
- Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. 0.20%
- Bladex, Inc. 0.18%
- Monday.com Ltd. 0.15%
- Global-e Online Ltd. 0.12%
- Wix.com Ltd. 0.12%
- Alight, Inc. 0.12%
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- SCHB vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 6.2%
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- SMLF vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 3.5%
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- SMLF vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 3.0%
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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