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ETF comparison

SPSM vs VO

US Small Cap vs US Mid Cap.

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPSM and VO would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPSM unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% VO unmatched 99.7%

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.

In SPSM only
604 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VO only
282 positions

Side by side

SPSM

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF

State Street · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$15.66B
TTM yield
1.53%
Top-10 conc.
5.9%
VO

Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Mid Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$216.43B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.00%
Top-10 conc.
9.5%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
87
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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SPSM sub-score VO

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 SPSM vs VO.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in SPSM

604 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 VO

282 total
  • Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
  • Western Digital Corp 1.06%
  • Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
  • Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
  • Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
  • Cummins Inc 0.95%
  • Datadog Inc 0.83%
  • Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
  • Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
  • Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%

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.