ETF comparison
SCHX vs SPY
Both US Large Cap.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
463 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHX and SPY would leave roughly 87.5% 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
SCHX is 6 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $64/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 SCHX vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
463 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHX | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.50% | 8.50% | 7.50% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 6.69% | 7.32% | 6.69% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.88% | 5.77% | 4.88% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.86% | 3.71% | 3.71% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.24% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.10% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.57% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.02% | 2.41% | 2.02% |
| 9 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.60% | 1.82% | 1.60% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 1.79% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.28% | 1.37% | 1.28% |
| 12 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 1.27% | 1.41% | 1.27% |
Only in SCHX
285 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.89%
- Linde PLC 0.34%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.28%
- Eaton Corp PLC 0.23%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.22%
- Accenture PLC 0.17%
- Chubb Ltd 0.17%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.15%
- Medtronic PLC 0.14%
- Snowflake Inc 0.13%
Only in SPY
42 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- SANDISK CORP 0.38%
- LINDE PLC 0.33%
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS 0.29%
- EATON CORP PLC 0.25%
- ACCENTURE PLC CL A 0.18%
- CHUBB LTD 0.17%
- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.17%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.15%
- LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC 0.14%
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- SPY vs SPTM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF 85.8%
- SPY vs VTHR · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares 85.7%
- SPY vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 85.4%
- SPY vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 84.0%
- SPY vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 83.2%
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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