ETF comparison
SPTM vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
122 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPTM and VUG would leave roughly 53.1% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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Top shared holdings
122 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPTM | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.92% | 12.63% | 6.92% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 6.07% | 11.67% | 6.07% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.96% | 7.61% | 3.96% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.33% | 4.47% | 3.33% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.99% | 5.76% | 2.99% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 2.56% | 4.28% | 2.56% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.38% | 4.53% | 2.38% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.76% | 3.41% | 1.76% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 1.69% | 3.27% | 1.69% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.35% | 2.81% | 1.35% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.35% | 2.62% | 1.35% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.82% | 1.54% | 0.82% |
Only in SPTM
1,386 total- Micron Technology Inc 1.86%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.31%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.25%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.88%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.81%
- Walmart Inc 0.71%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.70%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.67%
- AbbVie Inc 0.64%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.54%
Only in VUG
24 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.18%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.13%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.12%
- Coreweave Inc 0.12%
- ROBLOX Corp 0.12%
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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/.
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