ETF comparison
SCHMvsVB
US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.
Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
479 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHM and VB would leave roughly57.2%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 thecost calculator pre-filled with SCHM vs VB.
Top shared holdings
479 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHM | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Revolution Medicines Inc | 0.57% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 2 | Twilio Inc | 0.54% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 3 | MKS Inc | 0.40% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | Flex Ltd | 1.03% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 5 | Tapestry Inc | 0.55% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 6 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.53% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | Carpenter Technology Corp | 0.43% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 8 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.51% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 9 | FTAI Aviation Ltd | 0.50% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | Entegris Inc | 0.39% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 11 | nVent Electric PLC | 0.50% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 12 | ATI Inc | 0.44% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
Only in SCHM
18 total- Sandisk Corp/DE4.64%
- Ciena Corp1.52%
- Bloom Energy Corp1.36%
- Coherent Corp1.26%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc1.13%
- Royalty Pharma PLC0.39%
- KeyCorp0.37%
- Packaging Corp of America0.36%
- Snap-on Inc0.36%
- Loews Corp0.32%
Only in VB
830 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd0.55%
- Jabil Inc0.49%
- Astera Labs Inc0.45%
- Natera Inc0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc0.45%
- NRG Energy Inc0.37%
- Atmos Energy Corp0.35%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc0.33%
- Illumina Inc0.31%
- Everpure Inc0.30%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.