ETF comparison
SCHG vs SPY
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
116 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHG and SPY would leave roughly 55.2% 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
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Cost difference
SCHG is 5 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $54/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 SCHG vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
116 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHG | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 11.01% | 8.50% | 8.50% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 9.83% | 7.32% | 7.32% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.17% | 5.77% | 5.77% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.67% | 3.71% | 3.71% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.75% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 4.55% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.78% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.45% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 3.91% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.93% | 1.55% | 1.55% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.05% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 1.92% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
Only in SCHG
77 total- Linde PLC 0.81%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.35%
- Snowflake Inc 0.31%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.27%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.24%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.22%
- Strategy Inc 0.17%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.16%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.14%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.13%
Only in SPY
389 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.33%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.93%
- INTEL CORP 0.89%
- WALMART INC 0.70%
- ABBVIE INC 0.70%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.66%
- LAM RESEARCH CORP 0.65%
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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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