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ETF comparison

SPTM vs VB

US Total Market vs US Small Cap.

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
10.4 %

1,003 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPTM and VB would leave roughly 10.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPTM unmatched 89.5% Shared 10.4% VB unmatched 89.4%

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 SPTM only
505 positions
Shared
1,003 positions
In VB only
306 positions

Side by side

SPTM

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF

State Street · US Total Market

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$13.99B
TTM yield
1.07%
Top-10 conc.
33.5%
VB

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$175.77B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.27%
Top-10 conc.
4.3%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
88
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
66
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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SPTM sub-score VB

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 SPTM vs VB.

Top shared holdings

1,003 shared in total
# Holding In SPTM In VB Overlap
1 Flex Ltd 0.08% 0.36% 0.08%
2 Jabil Inc 0.06% 0.49% 0.06%
3 Qnity Electronics Inc 0.05% 0.21% 0.05%
4 EMCOR Group Inc 0.05% 0.45% 0.05%
5 Twilio Inc 0.05% 0.38% 0.05%
6 Centene Corp 0.05% 0.19% 0.05%
7 Carpenter Technology Corp 0.05% 0.35% 0.05%
8 EQT Corp 0.04% 0.20% 0.04%
9 Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.04% 0.34% 0.04%
10 Steel Dynamics Inc 0.04% 0.19% 0.04%
11 Hubbell Inc 0.04% 0.17% 0.04%
12 Illumina Inc 0.04% 0.31% 0.04%

Only in SPTM

505 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 6.92%
  • Apple Inc 6.07%
  • Microsoft Corp 3.96%
  • Amazon.com Inc 3.33%
  • Alphabet Inc 2.99%
  • Broadcom Inc 2.56%
  • Alphabet Inc 2.38%
  • Micron Technology Inc 1.86%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.76%
  • Tesla Inc 1.69%

Only in VB

306 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
  • REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
  • Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
  • Natera Inc 0.45%
  • FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.34%
  • SoFi Technologies Inc 0.28%
  • Affirm Holdings Inc 0.26%
  • Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One 0.25%
  • Guardant Health Inc 0.23%
  • IonQ Inc 0.19%

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.