ETF comparison
SCHM vs SPMD
Both US Mid Cap.
Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
303 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHM and SPMD would leave roughly 57.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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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 SCHM vs SPMD.
Top shared holdings
303 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHM | In SPMD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TechnipFMC PLC | 0.53% | 0.87% | 0.53% |
| 2 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.51% | 0.79% | 0.51% |
| 3 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.50% | 0.84% | 0.50% |
| 4 | XPO Inc | 0.49% | 0.71% | 0.49% |
| 5 | Royal Gold Inc | 0.48% | 0.64% | 0.48% |
| 6 | Flex Ltd | 0.46% | 0.75% | 0.46% |
| 7 | Woodward Inc | 0.46% | 0.67% | 0.46% |
| 8 | ATI Inc | 0.44% | 0.62% | 0.44% |
| 9 | United Therapeutics Corp | 0.43% | 0.80% | 0.43% |
| 10 | US Foods Holding Corp | 0.43% | 0.64% | 0.43% |
| 11 | Tenet Healthcare Corp | 0.42% | 0.52% | 0.42% |
| 12 | Entegris Inc | 0.40% | 0.56% | 0.40% |
Only in SCHM
194 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 1.86%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.98%
- Ciena Corp 0.97%
- Coherent Corp 0.81%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.67%
- Tapestry Inc 0.63%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.62%
- Texas Pacific Land Corp 0.60%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.54%
- Steel Dynamics Inc 0.53%
Only in SPMD
98 total- Illumina Inc 0.59%
- Everpure Inc 0.58%
- TransUnion 0.42%
- Carlyle Group Inc/The 0.39%
- Hecla Mining Co 0.39%
- Advanced Energy Industries Inc 0.38%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.31%
- Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.27%
- Viper Energy Inc 0.27%
- American Healthcare REIT Inc 0.26%
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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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