ETF comparison
SPMD vs SPY
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPMD and SPY would leave roughly 0.1% 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
SPMD 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 SPMD vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPMD | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everpure Inc | 0.68% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | Illumina Inc | 0.73% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in SPMD
398 total- Twilio Inc 0.86%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.84%
- MKS Inc 0.83%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.77%
- Entegris Inc 0.76%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.76%
- ATI Inc 0.74%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.73%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.71%
- MasTec Inc 0.71%
Only in SPY
503 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
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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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