ETF comparison
SPSM vs VIG
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPSM and VIG would leave roughly 0.7% 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 1 bps cheaper than VIG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VIG.
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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPSM | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enpro Inc | 0.43% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 2 | Matson Inc | 0.32% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | Pool Corp | 0.37% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | MarketAxess Holdings Inc | 0.22% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Balchem Corp | 0.29% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | ServisFirst Bancshares Inc | 0.24% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Materion Corp | 0.34% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | United Community Banks Inc/GA | 0.23% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Brady Corp | 0.22% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Independent Bank Corp | 0.22% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Franklin Electric Co Inc | 0.22% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Mueller Water Products Inc | 0.22% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in SPSM
554 total- FormFactor Inc 0.68%
- Viasat Inc 0.66%
- Molina Healthcare Inc 0.65%
- Argan Inc 0.60%
- BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.60%
- Element Solutions Inc 0.59%
- MaxLinear Inc 0.58%
- Krystal Biotech Inc 0.53%
- ESCO Technologies Inc 0.49%
- Match Group Inc 0.48%
Only in VIG
283 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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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.