ETF comparison
SCHD vs VB
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD 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 3 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for SCHD.
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 SCHD vs VB.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East West Bancorp Inc | 0.42% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 2 | Best Buy Co Inc | 0.38% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 3 | Watsco Inc | 0.32% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 4 | Fidelity National Financial Inc | 0.30% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 5 | APA Corp | 0.33% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 6 | HF Sinclair Corp | 0.28% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 7 | Skyworks Solutions Inc | 0.29% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 8 | American Financial Group Inc/OH | 0.23% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 9 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.22% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | General Mills Inc | 0.45% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 11 | Old Republic International Corp | 0.21% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc | 0.45% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in SCHD
57 total- QUALCOMM Inc 6.74%
- Texas Instruments Inc 5.90%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.09%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 3.96%
- Merck & Co Inc 3.86%
- Chevron Corp 3.83%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.65%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.55%
- ConocoPhillips 3.51%
- Amgen Inc 3.47%
Only in VB
1,267 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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