ETF comparison
SPMD vs VUG
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPMD and VUG would leave roughly 0.0% 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPMD | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burlington Stores Inc | 0.55% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in SPMD
399 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%
- Illumina Inc 0.73%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.73%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.71%
Only in VUG
145 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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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.