ETF comparison
SCHM vs VB
US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.
Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
483 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHM and VB would leave roughly 60.2% 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 VB.
Top shared holdings
483 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHM | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tapestry Inc | 0.63% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 2 | TechnipFMC PLC | 0.53% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 3 | Ciena Corp | 0.97% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 4 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.50% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 5 | United Therapeutics Corp | 0.43% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 6 | FTAI Aviation Ltd | 0.62% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 7 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.51% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 8 | Lumentum Holdings Inc | 0.98% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 9 | Flex Ltd | 0.46% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | Omnicom Group Inc | 0.54% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 11 | Coherent Corp | 0.81% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 12 | XPO Inc | 0.49% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
Only in SCHM
14 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 1.86%
- Packaging Corp of America 0.41%
- Snap-on Inc 0.40%
- Exact Sciences Corp 0.39%
- KeyCorp 0.38%
- Loews Corp 0.37%
- Alliant Energy Corp 0.37%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.34%
- Tradeweb Markets Inc 0.28%
- Confluent Inc 0.18%
Only in VB
828 total- EMCOR Group Inc 0.46%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.43%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.43%
- Jabil Inc 0.37%
- Natera Inc 0.37%
- Expand Energy Corp 0.37%
- Comfort Systems USA Inc 0.34%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc 0.30%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.29%
- SoFi Technologies Inc 0.28%
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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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