ETF comparison
SPMD vs VB
US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
397 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPMD and VB would leave roughly 43.5% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
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 SPMD vs VB.
Top shared holdings
397 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPMD | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twilio Inc | 0.86% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 2 | MKS Inc | 0.83% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 3 | Carpenter Technology Corp | 0.84% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 4 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.77% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 5 | Entegris Inc | 0.76% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | nVent Electric PLC | 0.76% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 7 | ATI Inc | 0.74% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 8 | TechnipFMC PLC | 0.73% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 9 | MasTec Inc | 0.71% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 10 | MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc | 0.69% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 11 | Woodward Inc | 0.70% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 12 | Illumina Inc | 0.73% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
Only in SPMD
3 total- SharkNinja Inc 0.30%
- Autoliv Inc 0.22%
- LivaNova PLC 0.12%
Only in VB
912 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
- Tapestry Inc 0.36%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.36%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SPMD
- SPMD vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 24.6%
- SPMD vs IWS · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 24.0%
- SPMD vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 22.9%
- SPMD vs IWP · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF 20.0%
- SPMD vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 11.2%
- SPMD vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 6.8%
More comparisons with VB
- VB vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 43.0%
- VB vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 36.1%
- VB vs DON · WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund 32.1%
- VB vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 30.8%
- VB vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 29.9%
- VB vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 29.4%
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/.
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.