ETF comparison
SCHM vs VUG
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHM and VUG would leave roughly 2.2% 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
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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHM | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandisk Corp/DE | 4.64% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 2 | Bloom Energy Corp | 1.36% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | Coherent Corp | 1.26% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Ciena Corp | 1.52% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | Lumentum Holdings Inc | 1.13% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Flex Ltd | 1.03% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 0.42% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | AST SpaceMobile Inc | 0.52% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Tradeweb Markets Inc | 0.22% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 10 | Burlington Stores Inc | 0.37% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Cerebras Systems Inc | 0.13% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | TKO Group Holdings Inc | 0.25% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in SCHM
483 total- Steel Dynamics Inc 0.66%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.57%
- Tapestry Inc 0.55%
- Twilio Inc 0.54%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.53%
- Centene Corp 0.52%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.51%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.51%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.50%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.50%
Only in VUG
133 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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- SCHM vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 57.2%
- SCHM vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 54.6%
- SCHM vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 54.2%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 1.9%
- VUG vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 1.8%
- VUG vs NOBL · ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF 1.6%
- VUG vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 1.2%
- VUG vs HDV · iShares Core High Dividend ETF 1.0%
- VUG vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 0.8%
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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