ETF comparison
SPSM vs VBK
Both US Small Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
159 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPSM and VBK would leave roughly 16.5% 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
SPSM is 2 bps cheaper than VBK. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VBK.
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 SPSM vs VBK.
Top shared holdings
159 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPSM | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FormFactor Inc | 0.68% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | BrightSpring Health Services Inc | 0.60% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 3 | MaxLinear Inc | 0.58% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 4 | Argan Inc | 0.60% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 5 | Krystal Biotech Inc | 0.53% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 6 | ESCO Technologies Inc | 0.49% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Match Group Inc | 0.48% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | Alkermes PLC | 0.47% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Everus Construction Group Inc | 0.46% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | StoneX Group Inc | 0.45% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 11 | Powell Industries Inc | 0.44% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 12 | Corcept Therapeutics Inc | 0.45% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in SPSM
445 total- Viasat Inc 0.66%
- Molina Healthcare Inc 0.65%
- Element Solutions Inc 0.59%
- Ralliant Corp 0.45%
- Plexus Corp 0.44%
- Enpro Inc 0.43%
- Eastman Chemical Co 0.42%
- Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp 0.41%
- CarMax Inc 0.41%
- Qorvo Inc 0.41%
Only in VBK
384 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.05%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Twilio Inc 0.88%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.83%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
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- SPSM vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 2.5%
- SPSM vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 2.4%
- SPSM vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 2.0%
- SPSM vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 1.1%
More comparisons with VBK
- VBK vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 16.4%
- VBK vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- VBK vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 14.6%
- VBK vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 7.6%
- VBK vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 7.5%
- VBK vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 7.4%
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/.
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